Subject: Sports (Page 110)

Nothing is so bad it can’t be made worse by firing the coach.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Situations Sports

Harmon Killebrew has enough power to hit home runs in any park – including Yellowstone.

American professional baseball player, manager & executive
Baseball Sports

It’s a humbling thing being humble.

Ohio State football player
Misspokements Sports

Nobody knows this [yet], but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

The relationship between the Welsh and English is based on trust and understanding. They don’t trust us and we don’t understand them.

Rugby union secretary
Sports

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive
Basketball Sports

There are four different cars filling the first four places.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
Baseball Sports

Well, that was a cliff-dweller.

professional baseball manager
Baseball Malaprops Sports

Underdog, overdog, hotdog; I guess you want to be an underdog – but an underdog with the best team.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor
Football Sports

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

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

I play football. I’m not trying to be a professor. The tests don’t seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven’t been through in school.

Football Misspokements Sports

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name… and they say golf is a quiet game.

Golf Sports

I guess I’d better send my fingers to Cooperstown.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

I don’t fear death, but I sure don’t like those three-footers for par.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer
Characteristics Fear Golf Sports

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.

British auto racer
Auto racing Sports

Only a stupid golfer throws his club behind him; the smart golfer throws his club ahead so he can pick it up on the way to the next hole.

Golf Sports

I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime.

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

Owww… it caught ‘em right in the pants area.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer
Hockey Misspokements Sports

There’s someone warming up in the bullpen, but he’s obscured by his number.

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