Subject: Sports (Page 40)

Once a pitcher loses his fastball, he has to go to the garbage.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base; that relay might get away and you’ve got another shot at him.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Mexicans are always tough with lots of heart; Koreans raw and gritty; the poor British tend to stand up straight and take it on the chops, bleeding almost before the opening bell.

Canadian sportswriter
Boxing People Sports

Boxing is just show business with blood.

English boxer
Boxing Sports

(Willie) McCovey swings and misses, and it’s fouled back.

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

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

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

Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

It's not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.

American football player
Football Sports

When I was recruited at Auburn, they took me to a strip joint; when I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
Basketball Education School Sports

I don’t room with him [Babe Ruth]; I room with his suitcase.

professional baseball player
Activities Baseball Misspokements Sports

Reporter: What did you think about the collective bargaining proposal?

Payton: (making $2,700,000 per year): People would have to cut their lifestyle, and they’d live like penny-pinchers.

professional football coach
Misspokements Money Sports

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Sports

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic
Golf Sports

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
Basketball Education School Sports

… another dropped out when diarrhea slowed him to the point of elimination.

Cycling commentator
Misspokements Sports

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat… I might be failing as a father.

(1963 – ) American comedian & author
Family Fathers Sports

Johnny Carson gently suggested to Cobb that Larry Holmes seemed to be always a step ahead of him

Cobb replied: Did it seem that way to you too?

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist
Activities Sports

The A's leave after this game for Cleveland. It was only by a 13-12 vote that they decided to go.

Oakland A's announcer
Baseball Places Sports

Pudge is so old, they didn’t have history class when he went to school.

professional baseball player & broadcaster
Age Baseball Old Sports