Subject: Sports (Page 108)

If my quarterback runs, I'll shoot him.

American football coach
Football Sports

They probably would; I haven't played in twenty years and we're all old now.

professional basketball player, coach & executive
Basketball Sports

The way to make coaches think you’re in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

American writer
Baseball 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

Mexicans are always tough with lots of heart; Koreans raw and gritty; the poor British tend to stand up straight and take it on the chops, bleeding almost before the opening bell.

Canadian sportswriter
Boxing People Sports

That putt had more breaks than a government job.

golf writer
Golf Sports

Dance with the one what brung ya.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach
Football Sports

I’m not an athlete; I’m a professional baseball player.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Tom Landry is such a perfectionist that if he were married to Dolly Parton, he’d ask her to cook.

American football player
Football Sports

Johnny Carson gently suggested to Cobb that Larry Holmes seemed to be always a step ahead of him

Cobb replied: Did it seem that way to you too?

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

He runs like a camel… a really pissed off camel.

(1925 – ) American professional football player
Football Sports

Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.

American tennis player, instructor & broadcaster
Sports

If you believe that [Anna Kournikova's claim that she is a virgin], I've never questioned a call in my life.

American professional tennis player
Sex Sports

I'd spend six months behind bars to have him on my team.

Canadian hockey player & broadcaster
Hockey Sports

In boxing, it's one against one, whereas in rugby league you have 13 guys coming at you, all trying to do you damage. Mind you, my last fight was a bit like that.

British boxer
Boxing Sports

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ‘em.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
America Baseball People Sports

Sure, luck means a lot in football; not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

(1930 – ) American football player & coach
Football Sports

Dave Wottle has completely misjudged this race… and here comes Wottle!

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

I’m a professor in the school of how to break the racket.

Croatian professional tennis player
Sports