Subject: Sports (Page 123)

When you’re 21, you're a prospect; when you’re 30, you’re a suspect.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

An hour after the game, you want to go out and play them again.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach
Baseball Sports

I don’t like to watch golf on television because I can’t stand people who whisper.

(1936 – 2014) American standup comedian, actor & author
Golf Speech Sports Television

If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.

(1931 – ) American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

There seems only one way to beat George Foreman: shell him for three days and then send the infantry in.

(1934 – ) Scottish sports writer
Boxing Sports

I’m a golfer – not an athlete.

professional golfer
Golf Misspokements Sports

Reporter: Will you be rooting for the American League or National League in the All Star Game?

Dole: Probably.

(1923 – ) U.S. senator (Kansas) & presidential candidate
Baseball Misspokements Sports

They wanted me to play third like Brooks (Robinson) so I did play like Brooks — Mel Brooks.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

It was cool, man, but I’m a little depressed they didn’t have a buffet.

300+ pound American football player
Food/Drink Football Sports

Yeah… it’s called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
Basketball Sports

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

American football player
Football Sports

He’s about the size of a lot of guys that size.

football coach
Football Misspokements Sports

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

Alan Shepard walking on the moon found a golf ball with Gerald Ford’s initials on it.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Golf Sports

They shouldn’t throw at me; I’m the father of five or six kids.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Marvelous oriental pace he's got, just like a Buddhist statue.

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements Sports

If you see the ball, hit it… that’s what it’s there for.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Sports Yogi-isms

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

American basketball player
Basketball Sports

Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

English football player & announcer
Misspokements Sports

He's skating like he's 36 again.

Canadian hockey player
Age Hockey Sports

Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports