Subject: Sports (Page 74)

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

Jack Del Rio and myself are very similar except he's really good looking and was a great player. Other than that we're very similar.

American football coach
Football Sports

That's the fastest time ever run – but it's not as fast as the world record.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist
America Baseball Places Sports

I think Jessel’s philosophy about golf was something like: If all you’re going to do is chase the ball, why hit it in the first place?

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
Golf Sports

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you.

American baseball player
Baseball Characteristics Sports

I’m traveling to all 51 states to see who can stop #85.

professional football player (#85)
Football Misspokements Sports

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host
Baseball 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

I walk into the clubhouse and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic; we have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol and by the seventh inning he had drunk it all.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager
Baseball Sports

That’s one you can tell your grandchildren about – tomorrow.

American baseball player
Age Baseball Sports

Swing hard in case you hit it.

(1961 – ) American football player
Golf Sports

Spencer’s running across field calling out, ‘Come inside me, come inside me.’

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

Finishing second means you are the first driver to lose.

(1950 – 1982) Canadian racing driver
Auto racing Sports

Four out of five dentists surveyed recommended playing hockey.

Hockey Sports

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game and if that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.

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

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor
Football Sports

He can be as good as he wants to be, that's how good he can be.

English football player & announcer
Misspokements Sports

I figured I'd find him sooner or later but I never did. I asked myself, "Where did he go?" I knew he was there because he kept hitting me.

British boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Ingemar Johansson is a leviathan with a strangler's hands and a smile like the beam of a lighthouse.

Boxing Sports

Golfing excellence goes hand in hand with alcohol, as many an Open and Amateur champion has shown.

British golf writer & commentator
Alcohol Food/Drink Golf Sports