Subject: Sports (Page 85)

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

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Playing middle linebacker is like walking through a lion's cage in a three-piece porkchop suit.

professional football player
Football Sports

Passin’ Earnhardt is like trying to take a bone out of a Pit Bull’s mouth.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

Beasley was 6’10” in college and 6’7” when he entered the NBA.

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

Whoever said, “It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,” probably lost!

(1956 – ) Czech American tennis player
Sports

Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand.

BBC commentator
Misspokements Sports

The Mexicans… these tiny little men from South America.

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements People Sports

We work in the toy department.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist
Communication Reading/Writing Sports

You can't expect Mr. Ed to keep up with Secretariat.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb; to be a back, you only have to be dumb.

(1888 – 1931) American football player & coach
Football Intelligence Sports Stupidity

Better teams win more often than the teams that are not so good.

professional hockey coach
Hockey Misspokements Sports

I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set… and they're both working.

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

I went to bed and I was old and washed up. I woke up a rookie… what could be better?

American professional golfer
Golf Sports

They christened their game ‘golf’ because they were Scottish and reveled in meaningless Celtic noises in the back of the throat.

(1957 – ) English actor, writer, journalist, comedian & film director
Golf Places Sports

There are only two seasons – winter and baseball.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter
Baseball Science/Weather Sports

Rugby is a game for the mentally deficient… that is why it was invented by the British. Who else but an Englishman could invent an oval ball?

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian
Sports

All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

Welsh-born Scottish writer
Golf Sports

I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

The Queen's Park Oval -– as its name suggests, absolutely round!

cricket commentator
Misspokements Sports

He was asked to throw out the first ball at a World Series game; but … he looked at the ball and, instead of throwing it, he put it in his pocket and sat down.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
Activities Frugal Money Sports

That ball is so far left Lassie couldn’t find it if it was wrapped in bacon.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator
Golf Sports