Subject: Sports (Page 69)

He was the only man I ever saw who ran his own interference.

professional 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

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer
Golf Language Sports

Trade Steve Yzerman? That's like asking me if I want to trade my son Jason for the kid next door.

Canadian hockey coach & politician
Hockey

I never lost my job while I was leading a race.

American auto racer
Auto racing Situations Sports Work

There were times I felt like leaving the stadium and hitchhiking home.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

In a way an umpire is like a woman. He makes quick decisions, never reverses them, and doesn't think you're safe when you're out.

American baseball umpire
Baseball People Sports Women

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

Jack Dempsey hit me hardest, 'cos Dempsey hit me 211,000 dollars' worth, while Joe Louis only hit me 36,000 dollars' worth.

American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check; I'm in the check cashing business.

American professional boxer
Boxing Sports

The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.

American basketball player & coach
Basketball Sports

Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.

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

We're looking forward to building the type of team the Rangers are able to buy.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
Hockey Sports

I just told him to drop the &%^# puck. I didn’t suggest his mother had swum after troop ships or anything.


Sports

We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but… uh… [smile]

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

If Stan (Bowles) could pass a betting shop like he can pass a ball he’d have no trouble at all.

British football manager
Sports

I don’t know what he has… a pulled groin… a hip flexor… I dont know… a pulled something;  I never pulled anything… you can’t pull fat.

American football coach
Football Sports

Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'


Basketball Occupations Sports Work

You never had to ask his score; just count the casualties.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Golf Sports

He is accelerating all the time; the last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before that in 62.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports Time

They're a little bit like money. You don't want to die with them and give them to your kids, so you might as well use them if you need them.

American football coach
Football Sports