Subject: Sports (Page 113)

Yes, the guy can score you 40 goals… what I don't want is him causing 60.

Canadian hockey player & broadcaster
Hockey Sports

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy.

(1929 – ) American baseball player who had a well-publicized bipolar disorder
Baseball Sports

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Activities Golf Sports

Mike Caldwell, the Padres’ right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

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

Hey, you're a white guy, do something about this!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

We got a lot of guys not doing what their bubble-gum card says they can do.

professional baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

God's busy; they'll have to make do with me.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

It is a full house at the Eden Gardens. Today, Calcutta is celebrating the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi!

cricket commentator
Misspokements Sports

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

football coach
Football Sports

Hold when you're at home and don't hold when you're on the road.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

I went through life as "a player to be named later.”

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

Play him, fine him, and play him again.

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

When you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, the chicken makes a contribution, the pig makes a commitment.

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

All of his saves have come during relief appearances.

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

I was thinking of running a marathon, but I think it might be too difficult getting all the roads closed and providing enough water for everyone.

comedian
Activities Sports

I can see the sun okay, and that's 93 million miles away.

American baseball umpire
Baseball Sports

Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread.

(1910 – 1983) professional golfer
Golf Sports

Grubb goes back, back… he’s under the warning track and makes the play.

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

Most people play a fair game of golf… if you watch them.

(1911 – 1999) comedian, author & columnist
Golf Sports

There are younger Aztec ruins.

sportswriter & newspaper columnist
Age Baseball Old Sports

Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna’s Lotus sounding rough?

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports