Subject: Sports (Page 36)

He can do it the hard way, get beat up for 12 rounds and end up in the hospital. Or, he can do it the easy way, get hit on the chin and go to sleep.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

The Mets just had their first .500 or better April since July of 1992.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

A golf ball is like a clock; always hit it at 6 o’clock and make it go toward 12 o’clock… but make sure you’re in the same time zone.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer
Golf Sports

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

Football Murphy’s Laws Sports

The least thing upsets him on the links; he missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
Characteristics Golf Sports

When I raced a car last it was at a time when sex was safe and racing was dangerous. Now, it’s the other way round.

German auto racer
Auto racing Sports

When he put out his arms to celebrate, [after scoring his second goal] the rest of us skated immediately to the bench and left him there all alone.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

Overwhelming underdogs.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Yogi-isms

The L.A. Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball.

Basketball Sports

My coach said I ran like a girl, I said if he could run a little faster he could too.

1972 – ) American soccer player
Sports Women

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him forf the entire weekend.


Activities Sports

The woods are full of long drivers.

American golf professional & coach
Golf Sports

He dribbles a lot and the opposition don’t like it – you can see it all over their faces.

English former football player & manager
Misspokements Sports

Look at him and you'd think he's 16… talk to him and you think he's 26; talk baseball with him, and you'd think he's 36.

(1881 – 1965) American Major League Baseball executive
Baseball Intelligence Sports

If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.

novelist, screenwriter & businessman
Football God Men Sports Women

You don't hit with your face.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Appearance Baseball Yogi-isms

And Referee Richie Powers called the loose bowel foul on Johnson.

American sportscaster
Sports

No matter how strong the breeze when you leave the dock, once you have reached the furthest point from port the wind will die.

Murphy’s Laws Sports

I remember in Pittsburgh we had no players and the ones we did have wanted to stay at the hotel by the fire. I was ticked because that's where I wanted to stand.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

(1929 – 2016) American golfer
Golf Sports

There’s no secret. You just press the accelerator to the floor and steer left.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports