Subject: Sports (Page 63)

After a heavy reverse – It was an 'AW game. We were AWful and they were AWesome.

Basketball Sports

If a contest had 97 prizes, the 98th would be a trip to Green Bay.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Ozzie Smith just made a play that I have never seen before; and he’s done it more times than anyone else.

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

Some guys are inwardly outgoing.

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

He’s easy to do. Sit on the bench. Play about 10 minutes a game.

Czech hockey player
Hockey Sports

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name… and they say golf is a quiet game.

Golf Sports

You can't expect Mr. Ed to keep up with Secretariat.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.

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

One of the finest sights in the world: the other man's ball dropping in the water – preferably so that he can see it but cannot quite reach it and has therefore to leave it there, thus rendering himself so mad that he loses the next hole as well.

British golf writer & commentator
Golf Sports

A business executive is someone who talks golf in the office and business on the golf course.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine
Golf Sports

I just stood there watching him walk past and thinking, ‘I don’t know what that is, but I know there weren’t two of them on Noah’s Ark.’

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator
Golf Sports

Think?… how the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?

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

Mike Tyson dropped me and when I looked up, the count was on five. I said to myself, ‘Damn, whatever happened to one to four.’

American boxer
Boxing Sports

There are two reasons for making a hole in one; the first is that it is immensely labor-saving.

Golf Sports

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

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

The amount of wind will vary inversely with the number and experience of the people you take on board.

Murphy’s Laws Sports

Hitting the ball is the fun part of it, but the fewer times you hit the ball the more fun you have.

American professional golfer
Golf Sports

He could hit .300 with a fountain pen.

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host
Baseball Sports

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

American basketball coach
Basketball Sports

You know that creepy-looking guy you stare at two seats behind you, thinking, who would come to a movie by himself? That's me.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive
Hockey People Self Sports