Subject: Sports (Page 82)

Golf is like love. One day you think you are too old and the next day you want to do it again.

Argentinian professional golfer
Golf Sports

There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.

professional basketball player & coach
Misspokements Sports

It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

(1940 – ) Italian-American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Baseball Murphy’s Laws Sports

I’m trying to kick your ass… in a nice way.

American professional tennis player
Sports

I don’t live in the fast lane – I live on the off ramp.

(1925 – 1990) Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
Hockey Life Sports

Hey Stanley, you could be a great player if you learned just two words: I'm full.

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

The final score after eight innings is Giants 3, Padres 2.

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

For over 20 years the Boston Celtics have stood for something. The only thing they stand for now is the [national] anthem.

American sportswriter
Basketball Sports

For one brief moment today I thought I was winning in the game of life… but there was a flag on the play!

cartoon character, Peanuts, Charles Schulz (1922 – 2000) cartoonist
Life Problems Sports

They say that nobody is perfect… then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.

professional basketball player
Basketball Sports

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

When you’re older than the manager and the general manger, that’s not a good sign.

American baseball player
Age Baseball Sports

I fear no man, but the dentist.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Emotions Fear 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

He's not only a lousy fighter, he's a bad actor. Louis or Marciano could have whipped him by telephone.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

At the start of the seventh round of a match with Jack Thompson, Sam Langford extended his glove, which was the usual ritual done before the final round of a boxing match.
A puzzled Thompson said: This ain't the last round, Sam.
Langford replied: It is for you.

Canadian boxer
Boxing Sports

He needed a psychiatrist more than I did.

(1929 – ) American baseball player who had a well-publicized bipolar disorder
Baseball Sports

You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Intelligence Mind Sports

If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.

American football defensive end
Football Sports