Subject: Sports (Page 99)

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

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

Slovak-born Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

I wouldn’t play the French at marbles, never mind Rugby League. All we will ever learn off them is how to fight and spit and bite each other.

Rugby coach
Sports

The only man I've ever known who could strut sitting down.

(1860 – 1931) American baseball writer & humorist
Baseball Sports

Reporter: Who do you think is the number one player of all time?

Logan: I’d have to go with the immoral Babe Ruth.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.

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

I'm broke and I'm back.

American football player
Football Sports

If I hit it right, it's a slice. If I hit it left, it's a hook. If I hit it straight, it's a miracle.

American professional golfer
Golf Sports

Play him, fine him, and play him again.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

If you keep your opposition on their ass, they don’t score goals.

(1925 – 1990) Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager
Hockey Sports

I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on his scorecard.

professional golfer
Characteristics Golf Honesty Sports

I don't want to get into a 'He said, she said' with the refs… I'm the 'he.'

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

It just as easily could have gone the other way.

professional baseball player & manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports Time

Take his body apart and see what's in it.

American basketball player
Basketball Sports

Can’t anything be done about calling these guys student athletes? … That’s like referring to Attila the Hun’s cavalry as “weekend warriors.”

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist
Education People School Sports

The Baltimore Colts are a bright young team; it seems as if they have their future ahead of them.

(1919 – 2006) American sports announcer
Future Misspokements Sports Things

I’ll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Age Baseball Old 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