Subject: Sports (Page 36)

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art; trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Blues saxophonist
Boxing Sports

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

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

The main problem with keeping your eye on the ball is you have to take your eye off your opponent.

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

The side has been held together by needles and sticking plaster.

Rugby coach
Sports

Brian London possesses the most unbeautiful face – it looks as if it, at one time, fell apart and was reassembled by a drunken mechanic.

English broadcaster, journalist & author
Appearance Boxing Sports

The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club.

Spanish professional golfer
Communication Speech Sports

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

baseball player
Baseball Sports

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

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

Welsh-born Scottish writer
Golf Sports

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me that question… wait a minute, I do have a dollar for every time I've been asked that question.

American basketball player & coach
Basketball Situations Sports

Never has my flabber been so completely gasted

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator
Golf Sports

Reporter: Is it true that you’d throw at your own mother.
Gomez: You’re damn right I would, she’s a good hitter.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Coaches who start listening to fans wind up sitting next to them.

professional basketball player & coach
Basketball Sports

60 per cent of all the Aussies think Joe Bugner is something you find up the Queensland Premier's nose.

Sports

You do a lot of praying, but most of the time the answer is “no.”

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Religion Sports

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

sportswriter
Auto racing Entertainment Sports Television

Three or four plane crashes and we're in the playoffs.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Mike's like a Gershwin or Beethoven. You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter
Boxing Sports

He can embarrass the batter on one pitch and the catcher on the next.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

The wrong quarterback is the one that’s in there.

Football Murphy’s Laws Sports

I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing; now I go to the driving range to practice slicing without swearing.

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