Subject: Sports (Page 121)

The question looming over Magri, is not will he keep the title, but can he?

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements Sports

You can throw anything in our house, but we’ll just let it roll off our backs

Activities Hockey Misspokements Sports

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base; that relay might get away and you’ve got another shot at him.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

A well-adjusted man is one who can play golf as if it were a game.

Golf Sports

I don’t think there’s anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers… I mean Chargers.

football coach
Football Misspokements Sports

Any umpire who lasts five years in the minor leagues deserves to be immortalized; any umpire who lasts ten or more years in the minors deserves to be institutionalized.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire
Baseball Sports

It would be like the elephants standing up on two feet. It would be like the man being shot out of the cannon. It would be like a woman with a beard down to the floor. It would be the greatest show on earth.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Reporter: To what do you attribute last night’s loss?

Dale Neal: To the fact that they scored more points than we did.

Misspokements Sports

It was strange. The only English words I saw were Sony and Mitsubishi.

American baseball player
Baseball Communication Language Misspokements Sports

I can’t keep referring to basketball players as Khloe Kardashian’s husband and his friends.

(1983 – ) American comedian & actor
Basketball Sports

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

baseball player
Baseball

When he gets mad, it's like he's in another world. He'll look at you with those big eyes and they'll be going around in circles.

professional hockey player
Hockey Sports

If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf.

golf writer
Characteristics Golf Sports

I get worried when a guy goes down, in case he doesn't get up – for me to hit him again.

British boxer
Boxing Sports

It's hard to describe what it's like to see a stock car flying through the air knowing it's going to land on top of you.

American auto racer
Accidents Auto racing Problems Sports

They say something to me sometimes. But I don't understand all the words yet. So I smile at them and then I go score goal.

Russian hockey player
Hockey Sports

He has the touch of a gay hairdresser.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator
Golf 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

ESPN is like your family, it’s always there: the networks are like your mother-in-law… they are there on the weekends.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator
Sports Television

Today, Pittsburgh beat the Pirates, 6 to 6!

American sportscaster
Baseball Misspokements Sports

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.

American sports executive
Activities Basketball Sports