Subject: Sports (Page 72)

You don’t like to see hookers going down on players like that.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

That’s the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

Being named manager of the Seattle Mariners is like becoming the head chef at MacDonalds.

American sportswriter
Baseball Sports

Every five years, a man has to change his Sox.

professional baseball player & broadcaster
Baseball Sports

If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA

Canadian hockey player
Basketball Sports

Detroit fans don't know anything about baseball. They couldn't tell the difference between baseball players and Japanese aviators.

American baseball player, manager & scout
Baseball Sports

I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.

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

He just wants to get in there and mash them. If you broke his arm, he'd kick you. If you broke his leg, he'd bite you. If you took out his teeth, he'd nut you. This boy wants to fight.

Irish boxer
Boxing Sports

We've made a final offer. We hope [player] Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.

American player, coach & general manager
Hockey Sports

When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer
Golf Sports

Golf: A game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose

(1856 – 1924) 28th U.S. president & politician
Golf Sports

Jerry's a nice kid, but so's my wife… and she's no quarterback.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

They usually have four or five dreams a night about coming from different positions.

Scottish jockey
Sports

Here’s a guy who can use his arms and legs at the same time.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer
Football Misspokements Sports

Street hockey is great for kids. It’s energetic, competitive, and skillful… and best of all it keeps them off the street.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Misspokements Sports

 You mean in the state?

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Basketball Sports

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

(1906 – 1991) American baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Sports

You can say something to popes, kings and presidents, but you can't talk to officials. In the next war they ought to give everyone a whistle.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Basketball Sports

There are three things the average man thinks he can do better than everybody else: build a fire, run a motel and manage a baseball team.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach
Baseball 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

To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Baseball Self Sports