Subject: Sports (Page 82)

Putting an ex-fighter in the business world is like putting silk stockings on a pig.

boxing manager, trainer & cornerman
Boxing Occupations Sports

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Insults 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

Anyone who weighs over 200 pounds can punch; I don't care if it's a broad.

American boxing trainer
Boxing Sports

A good coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback, but not necessarily in that order.

(1927 – ) American football coach
Football Sports

The only thing Earl [Weaver] knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

American basketball coach
Basketball Sports

The audience are literally electrified and glued to their seats.

BBC commentator
Misspokements Sports

I imagine the conditions in those cars today are totally unimaginable.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.


(1897 – 1976) American novelist, short story & sports writer
Hockey Sports

I had an advantage – I slept with his mother.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Children Family Football Mothers Sports

An hour after the game, you want to go out and play them again.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach
Baseball Sports

I can do my sport no greater service.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

There is nothing wrong with the car except that it is on fire.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Problems Sports

You don’t like to see hookers going down on players like that.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

Pain is something you expect. You can’t win an Olympic final waving at the crowd.

British rower
Sports

Place-kickers aren't footballers, they're hired feet.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator
Football Sports

Next week we'll be looking at the Tour de France, all those bicycles roaring through the countryside.

Misspokements Sports

All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name… and they say golf is a quiet game.

Golf Sports