Subject: Sports (Page 72)

Cross country skiing is great… if you live in a small country.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Places Sports

After all the years of punishment you've taken, you must be thinking about giving up pantomime.

(1952 – ) British barrister, comedy writer, and radio & television presenter
Boxing Sports

God invented football so grown men would have something to do between wars.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter
Conflict Football Sports War

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by an occasional miracle.

Golf Sports

I'm in favor of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice.

American basketball player & coach
Basketball Sports

(Willie) McCovey swings and misses, and it’s fouled back.

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

What does it feel like being rammed up the backside by Barrichello?

English football player, manager & sports commentator
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

Let me know if Cain is able.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Big balls count.

Australian runner
Sports

Think?… how the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?

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

Sugar: Water polo? Isn’t that terribly dangerous?

Junior: I’ll say. I had two ponies drown under me.

(1925 – 2010) American film actor
Sports TV/Movie Quotes

I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.

American basketball player
Misspokements Sports

Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental. 

Canadian hockey player & sports reporter
Hockey Sports

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Baseball Basketball Football Hockey Sports

Baseball players are smarter than [American] football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the pitch?

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Football Sports

Frank Bruno's fall was that of a felled oak. As the dust settled there was a silence, and then followed the gentle rustle of falling leaves of greenbacks.

(1944 – ) British sportswriter
Boxing Sports

I managed good but, boy, did they play bad.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.

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

Sandy’s fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Baseball Sports

I figured out why they took out 8,000 trees at Oakmont. It's so people won't hang themselves.

professional golf caddie
Golf Sports