Subject: Sports (Page 51)

There are certain things about my game I don't want to change, but I think it's about time that I realized I can't fight every battle. Three hundred minutes in penalties is way too many. Way too many.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

He’s going for the green – and for those watching in black and white it’s behind the brown.

BBC commentator
Misspokements Sports

George has three speeds… slow, stop, and wait a minute.

American boxing trainer
Boxing Sports

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts; our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

(1919 – 2000) Canadian prime minister & politician
Canada Hockey Places Science/Weather Sports

Can’t anything be done about calling these guys student athletes? … That’s like referring to Attila the Hun’s cavalry as “weekend warriors.”

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist
Education People School Sports

Boxing writers are the only people out there who have less constructive jobs than what I do; I don't do nothing but hit people, and those mothers don't do nothing but write about what I do!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

Bob Gibson was so mean he would knock you down and then meet you at home plate to see if you wanted to make something of it.

(1942 – ) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Two kinds of American football players ain't worth a damn: one that never does what he's told and the other that does nothing but what he's told.

(1923 – 2013) American professional football coach
Football Sports

I refuse to call a 47-year-old white-haired man ’Sparky.’

baseball umpire
Baseball Sports

After all the years of punishment you've taken, you must be thinking about giving up pantomime.

(1952 – ) British barrister, comedy writer, and radio & television presenter
Boxing Sports

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

Basketball Sports

That was Benes’ fifth strikeout on the day; he came in with 94, so now he has 104 strikeouts on the year.

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

You can, legally, possibly hit and kill a fellow golfer with a ball, and there will not be a lot of trouble because the other golfers will refuse to stop and be witnesses, because they will want to keep playing.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Golf Sports

I love doubleheaders; that way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager
Baseball Sports

I wouldn’t play the French at marbles, never mind Rugby League. All we will ever learn off them is how to fight and spit and bite each other.

Rugby coach
Sports

Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.

American football player
Football Misspokements Sports

Peter McNeeley dived in with overarm shots like a child hurriedly learning the doggie paddle in the deep end.

(1944 – ) British sportswriter
Boxing Sports

My wife made me a millionaire. Before she divorced me, I had three million.

professional hockey player
Divorce Hockey Marriage Misspokements 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

He is a very dangerous bowler… innocuous, if you like.

cricket coach
Misspokements Sports

Senna’s car is absolutely unique, apart from the one following, which is identical.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Auto racing Colemanballs Misspokements Sports