Subject: Sports (Page 5)

It’s like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

Baseball, it is said, is only a game… true… and the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor
Baseball Sports

I don't mind the title fight going out at three in the morning. Everyone in Glasgow fights at three in the morning.

Boxing Sports

His gloves, dear. I've never been hit by an eye in my life.

British boxer
Sports

Handicapped Golfer: The man playing his boss.

Definitions Golf Sports

I’m not an athlete; I’m a professional baseball player.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

Dutch-born American baseball pitcher
Baseball Places Sports

He scored hockey by the number of fights. If you lost seven to one, but won five fights, he figured you won the game.

Canadian businessman, sportsman & owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs
Conflict Fights Hockey Sports

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive
Basketball Sports

I don’t want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.

professional basketball player
Basketball Misspokements Sports

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it.

(1910 – 1983) professional golfer
Golf Sex Sports

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

baseball player
Baseball Sports

90% of the putts that are short don’t go in.

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

We were tipping off our plays; whenever we broke from the huddle, three backs were laughing and one was as pale as a ghost.

professional football executive
Football Misspokements Sports

We’ve broken down the expansion teams and they’ve averaged winning 2.7 games their first year, which to me is rather difficult. I figured out the 2, but the .7 has got me wondering what the hell is going on.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Alain Prost is in a commanding second position.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

He asked me if he could marry Carrie before he asked her.  I said: You want to what?’ I thought he was just going to ask for more ice time.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
Hockey Sports

This players getting taller thing is getting out of hand. What we need to do is sink the baskets into the floor at each end of the court and recruit midgets.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Basketball Sports

I’m no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and 4,200 hits.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Whenever a superstar is traded to your favorite team, he fades. Whenever your team trades away a useless no-name, he immediately rises to stardom.

Failure Murphy’s Laws Sports Success

And the line-up for the final of the Women’s 400 meters hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports