Subject: Sports (Page 71)

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

American-Canadian hockey executive
Fights Hockey Sports

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history, but I consider that a compliment, because I must have got up more than any heavyweight champion.

American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Goaltenders are three sandwiches shy of a picnic. From the moment primitive man lurched erect, he survived on the principle that when something hard and potentially lethal comes toward you at great velocity, get the hell out of it's path.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

Floyd Patterson is everything a world heavyweight champion should be… except busy.

American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

He’s listed as day to day, but, then again, aren’t we all?

(1956 – ) born Daniel Patrick Pugh, American sportscaster & radio personality
Sports

These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.

American basketball player
Basketball Misspokements Sports

I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set… and they're both working.

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Two kinds of American football players ain't worth a damn: one that never does what he's told and the other that does nothing but what he's told.

(1923 – 2013) American professional football coach
Football Sports

A lot of the people who make these suggestions would have a hard time filling out the application forms to work at 7-Eleven.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

One hundred years of experience has demonstrated that the game is temporary insanity practiced in a pasture.

American sports journalist
Golf Sports

I'm glad it happened in front of the library. I've always emphasized scholarship.

Kansas State football oach
Football Sports

In basketball, the first person to touch the ball shoots it. Either that or the coach carefully diagrams a set play and then the first player to touch it shoots it.

owner of the Seattle SuperSonics
Basketball Sports

Sean Avery is liked about as much as a rattlesnake at a picnic.

Hockey Sports

The place was cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

professional baseball player
Baseball Hockey Sports

Columbus went around the world in 1492; that isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer
Golf Sports

The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby [Orr] coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time.  I’m sure I wasn’t the only goalie who did that.

Canadian professional hockey player
Hockey Sports

I don’t enjoy playing video golf because there’s nothing to throw.

American professional golfer
Entertainment Golf Sports

Butch Lewis is making no attempt to get out of the corner… and is hanging his chin out like a lantern in a storm.

English boxing journalist & commentator
Boxing Sports

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator
America Golf Government People Sports Taxes

He had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

(1881 – 1965) American Major League Baseball executive
Baseball Sports

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Basketball Sports