Subject: Sports (Page 89)

If hockey fights were fake, I'd be in more of them.

professional hockey player
Fights Hockey Sports

Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.

American hockey player & coach
Hockey Sports

I just think in order to be called a sport both teams need to know there’s a game going on.

(1975 – ) American comedian
Sports

Golf is the loneliest of games, not excluding postal chess.

golf writer
Golf Sports

The Mets have gotten their leadoff hitter on base only once in this inning.

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

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

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

Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.

Football Sports

It was an ideal day for football – too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Cold Football Science/Weather Sports

Those who the gods seek to destroy first, learn how to play golf.

(1926 – 2010) Canadian actor
Golf Sports

Gossage puts guys like me on his cereal for breakfast. He's the most intimidating pitcher I've ever seen.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

Magri has to do well against the unknown Mexican who comes from a famous family of five boxing brothers.

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements Sports

I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Sports Yogi-isms

I’m the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball People Self Sports

Businessman: One who talks golf all morning at the office, and business all afternoon on the links.

Definitions Golf Occupations

A sense of humor and a good bullpen.

(1931 – ) American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

Being traded is like celebrating your hundredth birthday… it might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host
Baseball Sports

Exciting plays occur only while you are watching the scoreboard or out buying a hot dog.

Murphy’s Laws Sports

No, I had 999 times to get ready for it.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

(1803 – 1857) English writer
Sports

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

professional golfer
Golf Sports

And he’s done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports