Subject: Sports (Page 53)

I’m throwing as hard as I ever did, but the ball is just not getting there as fast.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Age Baseball Sports Success

Dracula and LSU football are at their best after the sun goes down.

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

If I'm having brain surgery, I'll be darned if I want that surgeon playing for a tie.

American college football coach
Football Sports

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

Sandy’s fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Baseball Sports

He could hit better with a broken arm than we could with two good arms.

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

To Dallas Cowboys President Tex Schramm: You're one of the two most efficient organizations in the 20th century.

Schramm: What's the other?

Cook: The Third Reich.

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

The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not on theirs.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager
Baseball Science/Weather Sports

He's great to the old guys. He's got one trainer just to treat varicose veins.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor
Age Football Old Sports

Never was a man more aptly named.

Football Sports

He's skating like he's 36 again.

Canadian hockey player
Age Hockey Sports

Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.

American tennis player, instructor & broadcaster
Sports

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did… they were something special… they were like homing pigeons; the ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Bogey: The number of strokes needed to finish a hole by a golfer of average skill and above-average honesty.

Definitions Golf Sports

You can make a lot of money in this game; just ask my ex-wives; both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer
Golf Money Sports Wives

How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you?

professional hockey goalie
Hockey Sports

Mike Caldwell, the Padres’ right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

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

Every time I see you naked I feel bad for your wife.

Czech hockey player
Appearance Body Hockey Sports

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports