Subject: Sports (Page 22)

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive
Basketball Sports

No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did… they were something special… they were like homing pigeons; the ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Think?… how the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?

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

Cricket: A game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Definitions Sports

The Queen's Park Oval -– as its name suggests, absolutely round!

cricket commentator
Misspokements Sports

We used to pray the White Sox and the Cubs would merge so Chicago would have only one bad team.

American comedian
Baseball Sports

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

basketball coach
Basketball Sports

Have you noticed that whatever sport you’re trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Sports

The quarterback’s spending so much time behind the center that he may jeopardize his right to lead a Boy Scout troop.

(1953 – ) comedian, political commentator and television & radio personality
Football Situations Sports

Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer
Age Characteristics Men People Sports

Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

Canadian hockey goalie & coach
Hockey Sports

To finish first, you must first finish.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.

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

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

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

This is not even close to what I envisioned a no-hitter would be.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

Boxing is just show business with blood.

English boxer
Boxing Sports

Wally Dallenbach's like a kite without a tail out there.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

There are two reasons for making a hole in one; the first is that it is immensely labor-saving.

Golf Sports

Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Appearance Body Fat Hockey

Have another donut you fat pig!

Canadian hockey player & general manager
Hockey Sports

That picture was taken out of context.

professional baseball player
Misspokements Sports