Subject: Sports (Page 80)

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

American author & runner
Sports

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
Baseball Sports

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

American basketball coach
Basketball Sports

For Michigan fans, football is a religion. And the Ohio State game is Easter.

(1948 – 2003) American actor
Football Sports TV/Movie Quotes

I told my team it doesn't matter… there are 750 million people in China who don't even know this game was played. The next day, a guy called me from China and asked, 'What happened, Coach?

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.

American basketball coach
Basketball Sports

Four-letter Word: Par for the coarse.

Definitions Golf Language Sports

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

college football coach
Football Sports

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

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

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

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit.

(1954 – ) American actress & comedian
Baseball Situations Sports

Well, that was a cliff-dweller.

professional baseball manager
Baseball Malaprops Sports

You can talk to a fade but a hook won’t listen.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer
Golf Sports

There are three things that go on a fighter, first your reflexes go, then your chin goes, and then your friends go.

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

I wanted to go through the TV and strangle Terry Crisp. I wanted to punch Chris Gratton in the face. And when Petr Klima took a penalty, I wanted to send him back to Czechoslovakia.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
Hockey Sports

When I played football, we were small, but we were slow. Our record was five and five; we lost five games at home and five on the road.

Texas businessman
Football Misspokements Sports

The series is already won, but I don’t know by which team.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Now that Im retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.

American football player
Football Sports

Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.

professional golfer
Golf Sports

The difference between golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.

(1928 – ) Armenian American politician
Golf Government Sports