Subject: Sports (Page 48)

Winning is better than the next worse thing.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.

British boxing champion
Boxing Sports

You know what they say about big hitters… the woods are full of them.

(1910 – 1983) professional golfer
Golf Sports

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter
Golf Sports

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager
Baseball 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

I tell him ‘Attaway to hit, George.’

American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

If you play against him, you hate him; if you play with him, you hate him a little less.

(1964 – ) Venezuelan-American baseball player & manager
Baseball Insults Sports

When you’re older than the manager and the general manger, that’s not a good sign.

American baseball player
Age Baseball Sports

One under a tree, one under a bush, one under the water.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer
Golf

There are only two plays that I know, Romeo and Juliet and put the damn ball in the basket.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Basketball Sports

The score a player reports on any hole should always be regarded as his opening offer.

Anglo-Irish golfer
Golf Sports

For the Leafs, there are two kinds of games: those they lose because of the officiating and those they win despite the officiating.

Ottawa Mayor
Hockey Sports

I don’t want to die in the middle of the football season; I have to know who’s No. 1 in the last polls.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator
Death Football Sports

I’m traveling to all 51 states to see who can stop #85.

professional football player (#85)
Football Misspokements Sports

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

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

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

(1925 – 1990) Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
Hockey Sports

My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead, your chances aren’t as good.

American tennis player, instructor & broadcaster
Sports

When the last great scorer comes to mark against your name, it’s not whether you won or lost, but how many paid to see the game.

baseball executive
Money Sports

Fans never fall asleep at our games because they're afraid they might get hit with a pass.

American basketball coach
Basketball Sports

Rookie Wilson was candidate for Mookie of the Year.

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