Subject: Sports (Page 20)

How can you trust a man who can talk for five minutes and you can’t understand a sentence of it!

British and Canadian boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Boxing: A mutual affliction of brain damage for the amusement of the public.

Boxing Definitions 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

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter
Basketball Sports

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

(1939 – ) American actor, dancer, singer, producer & choreographer
Appearance Basketball Body Clothing Sports

Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

Putting an ex-fighter in the business world is like putting silk stockings on a pig.

boxing manager, trainer & cornerman
Boxing Occupations Sports

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.


(1912 – 2002) professional golfer
Golf Sports

Notices are appearing at courses telling golfers not to lick their balls on the green.

Golf Sports

The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract.

professional football player
Football Misspokements Sports

My dad once said that you meet a much nicer class of person there, but I'm not sure.

British auto racer
Auto racing Sports

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

The least thing upsets him on the links; he missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
Characteristics Golf Sports

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

(1930 – 2017) American journalist & author
Football Sports

On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating… the other 20 percent lied.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist
Activities Golf Sports

Could he run? Are you kidding? He had more moves than Mayflower Van Lines.

Tennessee football player
Football Sports

As a person gets older he doesn't get faster. Our quarterback will run from fright or lack of protection.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

They said it would last two rounds; they were half right, it lasted four.

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements Sports

We hate each other. People assume that we respect each other because we’re black. We don’t.

Canadian hockey player & commentator
Hockey Sports

Why should I have become elevated to a position of first-page importance merely because I am somewhat more dexterous than most in manipulating a contrivance of catgut and wood which is commonly called a tennis racquet?

first American female professional tennis player
Sports Success

Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

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