Subject: Sports (Page 56)

They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter
Baseball Sports Things

I'm glad it happened in front of the library. I've always emphasized scholarship.

Kansas State football oach
Football Sports

If you could eliminate the occasional bad shot you would be the first person to do so.

American professional golfer
Golf Sports

Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

From the way Denny’s shaking his head, he’s either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

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

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game and if that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.

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

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

American baseball player
Baseball Life Sports

The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

football broadcaster
Football Misspokements Sports

If I was earning £1 a race, I'd still be a racing driver – just a poor one.

British auto racer
Auto racing Money Sports

Columbus went around the world in 1492; that isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer
Golf Sports

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

American basketball coach
Basketball Football Sports

Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.

(1940 – ) professional golfer
Golf Sports

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist
Activities Life Sports

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

Only a stupid golfer throws his club behind him; the smart golfer throws his club ahead so he can pick it up on the way to the next hole.

Golf Sports

Gimme: An agreement between two duffer golfers who can’t putt.

Definitions Golf Sports

For over 20 years the Boston Celtics have stood for something. The only thing they stand for now is the [national] anthem.

American sportswriter
Basketball Sports

If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.

(1942 – ) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Stephen Hendry jumps on Steve Davis’s misses every chance he gets.

professional snooker player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

I can't tell who's leading… it's either Oxford or Cambridge.

British news commentator
Misspokements Sports