Subject: Sports (Page 90)

Joe Bugner: Get me Jesus Christ and I'll fight him tomorrow!
Mcllvanney: Joe, you're only saying that because you know he's got bad hands.

(1934 – ) Scottish sports writer
Boxing Sports

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing at you.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress
Emotions Golf Laughter Sports

If I'd known I was going to pitch a no-hitter today, I would have gotten a haircut.

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

Singles hitters drive Fords, home run hitters drive Cadillacs.

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

Racing is 99 per cent boredom and one per cent terror.

Australian auto racer
Auto racing Sports

The Rock didn't know too much about the boxing book, but it wasn't a book he hit me with. It was a whole library of bone crushers.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

He just got me in the right spot. In the small of the back. A good, clean, dirty hit… not that I didn't deserve it.

American hockey player
Hockey Sports

Interviewer: Auburn is a pretty good school; to graduate from there I suppose you really need to work hard and put forth maximum effort.

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

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.


(1897 – 1976) American novelist, short story & sports writer
Hockey Sports

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling, and golf. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with golf.

Golf Problems Sports

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball People Sports

Shooting is just like toenails. They may fall off occasionally, but you know they'll always come back.

American basketball player
Basketball 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

There are certain things about my game I don't want to change, but I think it's about time that I realized I can't fight every battle. Three hundred minutes in penalties is way too many. Way too many.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Intelligence Mind Sports

If the fans don’t wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop ‘em

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

Rookie Wilson was candidate for Mookie of the Year.

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

That’s Hendrick’s 19th home run; one more and he reaches double figures.

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

That home run ties it up, 1-0.

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

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other ninety-nine percent are followers of women.

baseball manager
Baseball Sports