Subject: Sports (Page 87)

I call Los Angeles the city of alternatives. If you don't like mountains, we got the ocean. If you don't like Knott's Berry Farm, we've got Disneyland. If you don't like basketball, we've got the Clippers.

American television personality
Basketball Sports

Well, we have been trying to get Elvis… he's been dead long enough.

brother of boxer champion George
Boxing Sports

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

I have a lifetime contract. That means I can't be fired during the third quarter if we're ahead and moving the ball.

(1937 – ) football coach, sportscaster, author & speaker
Football Sports

I told Zollie Volchok [Sonics general manager] we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

American basketball player & coach
Basketball Entertainment Music Sports

If you hit Polonia 100 fly balls, you could make a movie out of it — Catch 22.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends.

English sports commentator
Mixed metaphors Sports

Any guy who would pass up a chance to see Sam Snead play golf would pull the shades driving past the Taj Mahal.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Golf Sports

It’s nice to have a guy that young come along; we usually go out and find somebody who’s 47.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

[Coach Vince] Lombardi treats us all the same… like dogs.

professional football player
Football Sports

To Dallas Cowboys President Tex Schramm: You're one of the two most efficient organizations in the 20th century.

Schramm: What's the other?

Cook: The Third Reich.

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

He's the only guy I know who can go 4 for 3.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

If you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager
Baseball Sports

I'm going down so often these days you'd think I was making a blue movie.

English boxer
Boxing Sports

I’ve never seen a guy on the DL [Disabled List] with pulled fat.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

I just told him to drop the &%^# puck. I didn’t suggest his mother had swum after troop ships or anything.


Sports

When we played, World Series checks meant something; now all they do is screw up your taxes.

American baseball pitcher & announcer
Baseball Money Sports

Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Orel Hershiser is the only Major League pitcher to have two consecutive pronouns in his surname.

American essayist
Baseball Sports

Many fans look upon an umpire as a necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

The Mexicans… these tiny little men from South America.

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements People Sports