Subject: Sports (Page 70)

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer
Activities Sports

I’m a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat.

(1925 – ) American professional football player
Eating Food/Drink Football Sports

You used to think if the score was 5-0, he'd hit a five-run home run.

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

My handicap is that I don’t have a big enough beer cooler for the back of my golf cart.

professional football player
Golf Misspokements Sports

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

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

First I pray to God that nobody hits a ball to me; then I pray that nobody hits the ball to Steve Sax.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

I’m not an athlete; I’m a professional baseball player.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

There’s someone warming up in the bullpen, but he’s obscured by his number.

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

If I was earning £1 a race, I'd still be a racing driver – just a poor one.

British auto racer
Auto racing Money Sports

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns.

Golf Sports

I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had a career.

(1956 – ) Czech American tennis player
Sports Time

I didn’t hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

Canadian ice hockey goaltender
Hockey Sports

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do the operation on someone else, not you.

American basketball player
Basketball Health Sports

Giving Magic the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Basketball Sports

If anyone wants me tell them I'm being embalmed.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

So I'm ugly; I never saw anyone hit with his face.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Basketball Sports Yogi-isms

Tell him he’s Wayne Gretzky.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter
Golf Sports

He opened his legs and showed us what he’s got.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

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