Subject: Sports (Page 60)

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

She literally wiped the court with her opponent.

Misspokements Sports

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Basketball Sports

Howard Cosell is nobody’s fool. He’s everybody’s fool.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Insults Sports

You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Intelligence Mind Sports

Biologically, I'm 10; chronologically, I'm 33, but in hockey years, I'm 66.


Age Hockey Sports

I'd spend six months behind bars to have him on my team.

Canadian hockey player & broadcaster
Hockey Sports

They say you're not a coach in the league till you've been fired. I must be getting pretty good.

Canadian hockey player & coach
Hockey Sports

It was about three-to-one that I was not an SOB.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

The only way to avoid hitting a tree is to aim at it.

Golf Murphy’s Laws Sports

And he’s got the icepack on his groin there, so it’s possibly not the old shoulder injury.

English rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

You don’t have enough smarts to straighten this out. This is unstraightable.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager
Intelligence Misspokements Sports

Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

Football doesn’t build character; it eliminates the weak ones.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach
Characteristics Football Sports

The company should change its name to Mike.

American basketball player
Basketball Sports

Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring; besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls. It’s more democratic.

(1955 – ) American actor, musician, producer & director
Baseball Sports TV/Movie Quotes

I remember in Pittsburgh we had no players and the ones we did have wanted to stay at the hotel by the fire. I was ticked because that's where I wanted to stand.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Golf without mistakes is like watching haircuts.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Golf Sports

I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn't be here this week… he is attending the birth of his next wife.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator
Golf Sports

Chip Shot: A short, low approach shot that gets a player into position for one or more missed puts.

Definitions Golf Sports

This type of injury is very painful. Especially when it hurts.

Canadian hockey coach
Hockey Misspokements Sports