Subject: Sports (Page 88)

Golfing excellence goes hand in hand with alcohol, as many an Open and Amateur champion has shown.

British golf writer & commentator
Alcohol Food/Drink Golf Sports

I never tried to outsmart nobody; it was easier to outdummy them.

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

We estimate, and this isn’t an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.

professional baseball player
Misspokements Sports

Absentee: A missing golfing peg.

Definitions Golf Sports

When Sandy Koufax retired.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

It’s Steffi’s [Graf] forehand off both sides.

(1954 – ) American professional tennis player
Sports

If I was earning £1 a race, I'd still be a racing driver – just a poor one.

British auto racer
Auto racing Money Sports

George Chuvalo's best punch is a left cheek to the right glove.

American sportswriter
Boxing Sports

I wasn't talking to Holmes in there; every time I felt like saying something to him I found it hard because he kept putting his left hand in my mouth.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.

(1942 – ) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him forf the entire weekend.


Activities Sports

I'm really not a Facebook or Twitter guy; I'm a prime-rib-and-baked-potato guy.

American baseball player & manager
Baseball People Self Sports

I wouldn't trust him to sit on a toilet the right way.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator
Golf Sports

My three best punches were the choke hold, the rabbit punch and the head butt.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

Third base is certainly a reactionary position.

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

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

(1939 – ) American actor, dancer, singer, producer & choreographer
Appearance Basketball Body Clothing Sports

Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen.

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

Since I didn't want to go round mugging old ladies or robbing banks, I took up boxing.

English boxer
Boxing Occupations Sports Work

That was a maximization of a minimization of hits.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

My nose didn't move… it definitely had position.

American basketball player
Basketball Sports