Subject: Sports (Page 71)

One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports Travel

One night we play like King Kong, the next night like Fay Wray.

American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

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

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

I tried real hard to play golf, and I was so bad at it they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I’d spent about half the day in the woods.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality
Golf Sports

It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off… When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.

American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

Texas Tech football coach
Expressions Football 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

It'll take three good ones to be on in two today, Sir.

British golf writer & commentator
Golf Misspokements Sports

Every time I see you naked I feel bad for your wife.

Czech hockey player
Appearance Body Hockey Sports

We may have broken rules … but we did not cheat.

Connecticut basketball coach
Basketball Sports

Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.

American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

If you play well and win you’re a heck of a leader; you don't win your an okay leader, and if you don't play well and you don't win your a lousy leader.

Canadian hockey player & executive
Hockey Sports

So what? I can play Smoke on the Water.

American hockey goaltender
Hockey Sports

We have fifty-one golf courses in Palm Springs; he (Gerald Ford) never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.

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

When you’re 21, you're a prospect; when you’re 30, you’re a suspect.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

(1945 – ) American humorist (co-founder of National Lampoon)
Golf Sports

Billy Wells was all chin from the waist up.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

I’m throwing as hard as I ever did, but the ball is just not getting there as fast.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Age Baseball Sports Success

 The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey; the old ballplayer cared about the name on the front… the new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

professional baseball player
Baseball Characteristics 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

Pedroza – the crown on his head hanging by a thread.

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements Sports