Subject: Sports (Page 72)

I had some bad days in the field… but I didn’t take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way.

professional baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

Texas Tech football coach
Expressions Football Sports

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter; if you don't count the one I twisted and threw into a bush.

American sportswriter
Golf Sports

There was so much barging and shoving; it was like trying to get into a Glasgow pub on a Saturday night.

Scottish distance runner
Sports

I keep a picture of O. J. Simpson at my side at all times to remind me of the days when I knew how to coach.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Playing goal is like being shot at.

professional hockey goalie
Hockey Sports

Joe Bugner fought Bruno like the objective of boxing was to get hit on the jaw.

boxing film collector
Boxing Sports

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
Basketball Money Sports

Go ahead and putt, you are not interrupting my conversation. 


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

Emotion is highly overrated in football. My wife Corky is emotional as hell but can't play football worth a damn.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Emotions Football Sports

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play… it is war minus the shooting.

Eric Arthur Blair (1903 – 50) English author & journalist
Sports

My teeth weren't that good to begin with, so hopefully I can get some better ones.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Activities Golf Sports

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

(1770 – 1850) English Romantic poet
Golf Sports

I'm just a normal Aussie guy who likes a smoke and a drink. I wish they'd had the final between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. I might have won.

Australian long jumper
Sports

A good coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback, but not necessarily in that order.

(1927 – ) American football coach
Football Sports

If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away.

American sportscaster
Basketball Sports

Since then we've changed the locks.

Mayor of Scranton PA
Boxing Sports

Welcome to Worcester where we have just seen Barry Richards hit one of Basil D'Oliveira's balls clean out of the ground.

cricket announcer
Misspokements Sports

Golf giveth and golf taketh away, but it taketh away a hell of a lot more than it giveth.

South African professional golfer
Golf Sports