Subject: Sports (Page 21)

The bell went ding and I went dong.

British boxer
Boxing

Frentzen is taking… er… reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

Some guys play hockey… Gretzky plays 40 mph chess.

American sportswriter
Hockey Sports

We may have broken rules … but we did not cheat.

Connecticut basketball coach
Basketball Sports

All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

The way he’s swinging the bat, he won’t get a hit until the 20th century.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

There are younger Aztec ruins.

sportswriter & newspaper columnist
Age Baseball Old Sports

When I raced a car last it was at a time when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. Now, it’s the other way round.

German auto racer
Auto racing Sports

Golf is a better game played downhill.

(1940 – ) professional golfer
Golf Sports

Never in the ring of human conflict have so few taken so much from so many.

American boxer
Boxing Sports Wordplay

If you are going to have a fight with a visiting club, be sure to insult them the day they come to town, and not the last day of the series. It pays off better.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter
Baseball Conflict Fights Sports

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter; if you don't count the one I twisted and threw into a bush.

American sportswriter
Golf Sports

A stadium with the lights out.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Baseball Sports

Do they leave it there during games?

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

[The ball] came out like a dead mouse from a cornfield.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator
Golf Sports

You rejoin us at a very appropriate time – Ray Illingworth has just relieved himself at the pavilion end!

cricket announcer
Misspokements Sports

Pity Steve Ovett didn’t show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.

British Olympic decathlon champion
Sports

I imagine the conditions in those cars today are totally unimaginable.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

The Rangers dropped out of the lead June 16 with a loss that will be forever remembered as the forgettable debut of lefthander Matt Perisho.

sports reporter
Baseball Misspokements Sports