Subject: Sports (Page 62)

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
Basketball Sports

If he'd just tip he cap once, he could be elected mayor of Boston in five minutes.

baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Sports

All of a sudden he’s hurt and I’ve got to get the popcorn out of my teeth.

American hockey player
Hockey Sports

I’m glad I don’t play anymore; I could never learn all of those handshakes.

professional baseball player & announcer
Baseball Sports

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

baseball player
Baseball Sports

They say a tie is like kissing your sister; I guess that is better than kissing your brother.

(1937 – ) football coach, sportscaster, author & speaker
Football Sports

The lead is now 6.9 seconds… in fact, it’s just under 7 seconds.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

Gimme:  An agreement between two losers who can't putt.

(1907 – 1987) American journalist & author
Golf Situations 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

God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more."

American sportswriter
Golf Sports

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president
Golf Sports

Nigel Mansell is someone with about as much charisma as a damp spark-plug.

British sportswriter
Auto racing Insults Sports

Naseem Hamed is naturally fit. I've seen more fat on a butcher's apron.

English boxing journalist & commentator
Appearance Body Boxing Sports

I don’t think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona.

English football player & manager
Misspokements Sports

It is the best sport in the world; it's got everything – speed and tough, ugly men.

Irish rugby player
Sports

When I got up I stuck to my plan… stumbling forward and getting hit in the face.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Baseball Basketball Football Hockey Sports

I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. It doesn't worry me in the least to see a batsman hurt, rolling around screaming and blood on the pitch.

Australian crickete
Sports

I'd love to fight Gerry Cooney. But I have my price – 25 cents and a loose woman.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

If a coach starts listening to the fans, he ends up sitting next to them.

professional basketball player & coach
Basketball Sports

They had us with the walls to our back.

professional baseball player & manage
Misspokements Sports