Subject: Sports (Page 29)

My first priority is to finish above rather than beneath the ground.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

I don’t care what the tape says… I didn’t say it.

football coach
Misspokements Sports

The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch, and one on the throttle.

auto racing commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

I don’t know that my behavior has improved all that much with age; they just found someone worse.

American professional tennis player
Sports

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

baseball player
Baseball

All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

Welsh-born Scottish writer
Golf Sports

Templeton is as hot as you can be and still walk!

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

Listen, ump… how can you sleep with the lights on?

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Tell him he’s Wayne Gretzky.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

When you the man who beat the man who was the man… well, then you ‘The Man.’

American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

When your are playing for the national championship, it’s not a matter of life or death… it’s more important than that.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach
Sports

Call them pros, call them mercenaries – but in fact they are just grown-up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

Sports is the toy department of human life, and Monday Night Football is the largest attraction in the toy department.

(1918 – 1995) American sports journalist & television commentator
Football Sports

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

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

He needed a psychiatrist more than I did.

(1929 – ) American baseball player who had a well-publicized bipolar disorder
Baseball Sports

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer
Golf Sports

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

(1943 – ) comedian & actor
Situations Sports

The Baltimore Colts are a bright young team; it seems as if they have their future ahead of them.

(1919 – 2006) American sports announcer
Future Misspokements Sports Things

I was so bad, I couldn’t have driven Miss Daisy home.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist
Golf Sports

Put an ordinary driver in an Indy-type race car and he'd probably crash before he got out of the pit area.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports