Subject: Sports (Page 72)

We got to practice a little bit. I want these guys to be bouncing around like a pogo stick on Viagra.

football coach
Football Misspokements Sports

We're looking forward to building the type of team the Rangers are able to buy.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
Hockey Sports

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

basketball coach
Basketball Sports

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

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

Cleveland is trying to win the championship and Detroit has one foot in Cancun.

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

We lost some mighty good boys from last year because of paroles, but, crime being what it is, we've picked up some good ones since then, too.

basketball coach
Basketball Sports

Baseball is like church…. many attend, few understand.

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

The champion, Jess Willard, had about as much chance in this fight as a dish-faced chimpanzee in a beauty contest.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
Boxing Sports

Bill Walton is incredible; if you drop a toothpick on his foot, he'll have a stress fracture.

American basketball coach
Basketball Health Sports

I want to be the fastest woman in the world… in a manner of speaking.

American woman drag racer
Auto racing Sports Women

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Big balls count.

Australian runner
Sports

Slump, I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.

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

He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

Hey, Lou, it took you 15 years to get out of the game. Sometimes I’m out in 15 minutes.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

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

I don’t want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.

professional basketball player
Basketball Misspokements Sports

I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match: “It's a fight to the finish” … that's a good place to end.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
Boxing Sports

My kryptonite.

American football coach
Football Sports

He is not in a union; he can carry the ball as many times as we want him to… anyway, the ball doesn't weigh that much.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Cricket shouldn't be used as a political football.

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports