Subject: Sports (Page 32)

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

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements Sports

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

American football player
Football Sports

His nerves, his memory… and I can’t remember the third thing.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer
Golf Misspokements Sports

This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.

American basketball coach
Basketball Sports

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

football broadcaster
Football Misspokements Sports

What’s the toughest thing in a professional football game? … Its being the mother of the quarterback.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer
Family Football Mothers Sports

You guys lineup, alphabetically by height.

football coach
Misspokements 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

The only thing Earl [Weaver] knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

Hockey is a mans game children can play, the other sports are children’s games that men play.

Hockey Sports

The older you get, the faster you ran as a kid.

professional football player & coach
Age Football Memory Sports

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

Slovak-born Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

Lady Jacks Off to Hot Start in Conference

Headlines Sports

Swing hard in case you hit it.

(1961 – ) American football player
Golf Sports

Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in bad humor.

American football player & coach
Football

I don't want to fight no Mexican roadsweepers no more.

British boxer
Boxing Sports

Look at him (Bobby Richardson) – he doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t chew, he doesn’t stay out late, and he still can’t hit .250.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Characteristics Sports

A coach isn't as smart as people say he is when he's wins, or as stupid as when he loses.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach
Football Intelligence Sports

Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

British racing executive, writer & photographer
Auto racing Sports

I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

You don’t have enough smarts to straighten this out. This is unstraightable.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager
Intelligence Misspokements Sports