Subject: Sports (Page 71)

The older you get, the faster you ran as a kid.

professional football player & coach
Age Football Memory Sports

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

Connecticut basketball coach
Basketball Sports

I remember in Pittsburgh we had no players and the ones we did have wanted to stay at the hotel by the fire. I was ticked because that's where I wanted to stand.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.

American football defensive end
Football Sports

The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn’t even started.

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

There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics; Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.

(1925 – 2013) British prime minister & politician
Basketball Government Politics Sports

Now that Im retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.

American football player
Football Sports

Templeton is as hot as you can be and still walk!

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

Watching an America's Cup race is like watching grass grow.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer
Sports

Umpire's heaven is a place where he works third base every game; home is where the heartache is.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire
Baseball Sports

I know being a linesman is a thankless job, especially with guys like me around.

American professional tennis player
Sports

A well-adjusted man is one who can play golf as if it were a game.

Golf Sports

Tommy John is so old, he uses Absorbine Senior.

(1952 – ) American sportscaster
Age Baseball Old Sports

Muhammad Ali was on a plane when a stewardess asked him to fasten his seat belt. Ali told the lady: Superman don't need no seat belt.
The stewardess told the champ: Superman don't need no plane!

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Hold when you're at home and don't hold when you're on the road.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

A friend tricked me into going to Wimbledon by telling me it was a men's singles event.

American comedian
Dating Relationships Sports

It’s got lots of installation.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

You're wrong! I touched second base. I missed third… but I touched second.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Colleges spend more money on the promotion of the Heisman than the Pentagon spends on toilets.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator
Education Football Sports

Boxing writers are the only people out there who have less constructive jobs than what I do; I don't do nothing but hit people, and those mothers don't do nothing but write about what I do!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

We play a man-to-man defense. Person to person sounds like a telephone call.

Basketball Sports