Subject: Sports (Page 87)

Many mens have fell and stumbled when they meet big George in that square jungle.

Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion
Boxing Sports

To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Baseball Self Sports

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Baseball Sports

Hornets Will Accent Throwing Game in ’81

Headlines Sports

Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well.

(1912 – 2003) American sports writer
Characteristics Golf Honesty Lies Sports

That’s so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my @#%#%@ clothes.

professional hockey player
Hockey Misspokements Sports

We had a very scientific system of bringing in relief pitchers. We used the first one who answered the phone.

American baseball pitcher & pitching coach
Baseball Sports

I’m a golfer – not an athlete.

professional golfer
Golf Misspokements Sports

That slow motion doesn't show how fast the ball was traveling.

Australian cricketer & commentator
Misspokements Sports

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

(1907 – 1987) American journalist & author
Golf Sports

I can take it but I can't dish it out.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

Baseball's a very simple game. All you have to do is sit on your butt, spit tobacco, and nod at the stupid things your manager says.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

When the ducks are walking, you know it is too windy to be playing golf.

American professional golfer
Golf Science/Weather Sports

He is not in a union; he can carry the ball as many times as we want him to… anyway, the ball doesn't weigh that much.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf… I think it was my ex-wife.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist
Golf Sports

Most people play a fair game of golf… if you watch them.

(1911 – 1999) comedian, author & columnist
Golf Sports

I’m no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and 4,200 hits.

American baseball player
Baseball 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

I sure hope you’re staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.

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

Brooks [Robinson] never asked anyone to name a candy bar after him; in Baltimore, people named their children after him.

sports writer
Baseball Sports

When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer
Golf Sports