Subject: Sports (Page 34)

He has got perfect control over the ball right up to the minute he lets it go.

Australian rules football player
Misspokements Sports

He just can't believe what isn't happening to him.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

If Marc Bulger throws an interception in Sun Devil Stadium and nobody is there to see it, is it still an interception?

American sports writer
Football Sports

If there’s a pileup, they’ll have to give some of the players artificial insemination.

(1919 – 2006) American sports announcer
Football Misspokements Sports

So what if they're taller? We'll play big.

college basketball coach
Appearance Basketball Body Sports

Our strength is that we don’t have any weaknesses; our weakness is that we don’t have any real strengths.

College football coach
Football Sports

I never did say that you can’t be a nice guy and win; I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her.

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

Golf: A long walk broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

Definitions Golf Sports

I’m really no different than anybody else; except that sometimes I get my name in the paper.

Canadian professional hockey player
Hockey People Self Sports

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you.

American basketball player
Basketball Health Sports

In boxing the right cross-counter is distinctly one of those things it is more blessed to give than to receive.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
Boxing Sports

I’ve been dunked on by (Vitaly) Potapenko and now (Zan) Tabak; the good part is that they don’t make posters of those guys.

professional basketball player
Basketball Misspokements Sports

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

I've thought about buying those new, long distance balls, but I wonder, what's the point of hitting golf balls even further out of bounds?

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist
Golf Sports

His detractors faulted him for over managing and for giving more signs than the Coast Guard.

baseball writer
Baseball Sports

If I fought Evander [Holyfield] with a baseball bat, I would win the fight… but it would be by decision.

Boxing Sports

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

playwright, performer, musician, screenwriter & humorist
Football Sports

The final score after eight innings is Giants 3, Padres 2.

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

I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

(1888 – 1931) American football player & coach
Beliefs Football Sports

There’s a shot up the alley… oh, it’s just foul.

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

When I drove for British teams… they called me the ‘Tadpole' because I was too small to be a frog.

French auto racer
Auto racing Sports