Subject: Sports (Page 24)

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

Street hockey is great for kids. It’s energetic, competitive, and skillful… and best of all it keeps them off the street.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Misspokements Sports

He opened his legs and showed us what he’s got.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

He can make the ball look so small that you're not even sure why there's a practical reason for being up there.

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

There are only two seasons – winter and baseball.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter
Baseball Science/Weather Sports

They said I was such a great prospect that they were sending me to a winter league to sharpen up.; when I stepped off the plane, I was in Greenland.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Baseball Sports

Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.

Scottish football player & manager
Sports

Nobody knows this [yet], but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Highway and he’s nothing like him, but I can see why – it’s because he’s a bit different.

English football player & manager
Misspokements People Sports

It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati.

(1906 – 1991) American baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Money Places Sports

People don't know this but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant; I came down with hepatitis… the trainer injected me with it.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Activities Baseball Health Sports

These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.

American basketball player
Basketball Misspokements Sports

I can be found the next couple of months trying to perfect my new punch – the lip-buttoner.

American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

They may have regained all 40 yards… in fact, they may have.

Football Misspokements Sports

Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.

Canadian hockey coach, general manager & commentator
Hockey Sports

To win in the slowest possible time.

Australian race car driver
Auto racing Sports

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 Money Sports

Football kickers are like taxi cabs… you can always go out and hire another one.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator
Football Sports

I don’t fear death, but I sure don’t like those three-footers for par.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer
Characteristics Fear Golf Sports

…. Into lap 53, the penultimate last lap but one. 

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

One time, I got pulled over at four a.m.; I was fined seventy-five dollars for being intoxicated and four-hundred for being with the Phillies.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Baseball Driving Sports