Subject: Sports (Page 45)

Most of my clichés aren’t original.

football coach
Misspokements Sports

Not being born to parents who were accountants was probably my biggest mistake.

British boxing champion
Boxing Miscellaneous Sports

 I want a school my football team can be proud of.

(1905 – 1998) botanist, author & University of Oklahoma president
Education Football Misspokements School Sports

The stopwatch has stopped. It's up to God and the referee now. The referee is Pat Horan. God is God.

Irish Gaelic games commentator
God Sports

I don't think his hands could take the abuse.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

You won't find a single four-letter word in there… I don't go for that bullshit.

(1918 – ) American baseball pitcher
Baseball Books Communication Sports

Some guys are inwardly outgoing.

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

Oh, hell, if you win twenty games they want you to do it every year.

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

They should move first base back one step to eliminate all those close plays.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

After indulging in some heavy, late-night research with scholarly friends, Bobby was driving back to his hotel, innocently enough, when he was sideswiped by several empty cars lurking at curbside.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter
Football Sports

I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.

hockey coach
Hockey Sports

If Lew could cook, I’d marry him.

baseball manager
Baseball Sports

At all those banquets, stars get up and give credit to their coaches and parents; I give credit to no one; I made myself what I am today.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Baseball Self Sports Success

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

Rookie Wilson was candidate for Mookie of the Year.

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

There were no scores below single figures.

Australian cricketer & commentator
Misspokements Sports

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie.

Canadian-born American hockey player
Hockey Sports

Jimmy Hill: Don’t sit on the fence Terry, what chance do you think Germany has got of getting through?

Venables: I think it’s fifty-fifty.

English football player & manager
Misspokements Sports

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager
Baseball Education Learning Sports

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Age Fat Golf Sports