Subject: Sports (Page 119)

They say you're not a coach in the league till you've been fired. I must be getting pretty good.

Canadian hockey player & coach
Hockey Sports

Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.

professional baseball player
Misspokements Sports

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

professional golfer
Golf Sports

I don’t know… I’ve never smoked it.

(1943 – ) American football player
Activities Sports

I couldn't done it without my players.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidneys, and me… I went dancing with my wife.

Canadian boxing champion
Boxing Sports

 I want a school my football team can be proud of.

(1905 – 1998) botanist, author & University of Oklahoma president
Education Football Misspokements School Sports

Notices are appearing at courses telling golfers not to lick their balls on the green.

Golf Sports

Hey, Lou, it took you 15 years to get out of the game. Sometimes I’m out in 15 minutes.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

For his salad, you just pour vinegar and oil on your lawn and let him graze.

American football player
Football Sports

Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Tee your ball high… the air offers less resistance than dirt.

(1940 – ) professional golfer
Golf Sports

When I was recruited at Auburn, they took me to a strip joint; when I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements.

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

Mike Tyson dropped me and when I looked up, the count was on five. I said to myself, ‘Damn, whatever happened to one to four.’

American boxer
Boxing Sports

The main problem with keeping your eye on the ball is you have to take your eye off your opponent.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist
Golf Sports

I love my dad… he used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico, so, it was cool growing up with him ’cause when he hit us, he didn’t really hit us.

(1976 – ) comedian
Family Fathers Sports

The only way to ruin a day like this would be to play golf on it.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator
Golf Sports

You've got to think lucky; if you fall into a mud hole, check your back pocket – you might have caught a fish.

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

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you.

American baseball player
Baseball Characteristics Sports

Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

Our strength is that we don’t have any weaknesses; our weakness is that we don’t have any real strengths.

College football coach
Football Sports