Subject: Sports (Page 69)

We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor.

professional hockey player
Hockey Sports

I don’t want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.

professional basketball player
Basketball Misspokements Sports

I don't want to get into a 'He said, she said' with the refs… I'm the 'he.'

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

I wouldn’t play the French at marbles, never mind Rugby League. All we will ever learn off them is how to fight and spit and bite each other.

Rugby coach
Sports

I usually call the new guy and let him know where I like to sit on the bus, tell him ways he can stay out of my way, make sure he knows not to touch any of my stuff.

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

I don’t mind the high price of stardom, I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter
Money Sports Success

It's like embalming. Nobody likes it, but somebody has to do it.

American football player
Football Sports

Some teams are fair haired, we're not – some teams are the Smiths, we're the Grabowskis.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach
Football Sports

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play… it is war minus the shooting.

Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 50) English author & journalist
Sports

He's not twins.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

That’s what I call the ultimate laxative.

Canadian Prime Minister of Sports
Misspokements Sports

The Cincinnati Reds are like a drill team; they should be managed by Jack Webb.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

You drive for show, but putt for dough.

South African professional golfer
Golf Sports

If I play badly I’ll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I’ll break a guy’s leg to win, I don’t care. Afterward I say, ‘Yeah, all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.'

Canadian hockey player
Conflict Fights Hockey Sports

Look at him (Bobby Richardson) – he doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t chew, he doesn’t stay out late, and he still can’t hit .250.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Characteristics Sports

My problem is I lose too many one-run games – 10-9, 8-7.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

Oh, hell, if you win twenty games they want you to do it every year.

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? … he went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager
Boxing Intelligence Sports

I'm in favor of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.

American basketball player & coach
Basketball Sports

He’s the man of the hour at this particular moment.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter
Boxing Misspokements Sports

The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Misspokements Sports