Subject: Sports (Page 70)

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

Underdog, overdog, hotdog; I guess you want to be an underdog – but an underdog with the best team.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

The final score after eight innings is Giants 3, Padres 2.

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

He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager
Boxing Misspokements Sports

This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

horse racing trainer & commentator
Misspokements Sports

The only time I talk on the golf course is to my caddie. And then only to complain when he gives me the wrong club.

Spanish professional golfer
Communication Speech Sports

I went through life as "a player to be named later.”

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

I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story.

(1929 – ) American baseball player who had a well-publicized bipolar disorder
Baseball Sports

Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

British racing executive, writer & photographer
Auto racing Sports

My kryptonite.

American football coach
Football Sports

One player was lost because he broke his nose; how do you go about getting a nose in condition for football?

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

I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

Tiger Woods Plays With Own Balls, Nike Says

Headlines Sports

I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher; he said, ‘Dave Wehrmeister’s got 11 letters… is that a big enough name for you?

White Sox owner
Baseball Misspokements

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

American basketball player & broadcaster
Basketball Sports

The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

American professional golfer
Golf Sports

I will personally challenge anyone who wants to get rid of fighting to a fight.

American-Canadian hockey executive
Fights Hockey Sports

Many Americans follow pro basketball from November through June, for reasons that I found unexplainable, other than the fact that they were overly fascinated with soaring armpits.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter
Basketball Sports

Gentlemen, start your coffins.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Auto racing Sports

I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing; now I go to the driving range to practice slicing without swearing.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist
Communication Golf Speech Sports

That was a tremendous six. The ball was still in the air as it went over the boundary.

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports