Subject: Sports (Page 124)

A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can’t hit one another. 

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist
Hockey Sports

We're shooting 100 percent – 60 percent from the field and 40 percent from the free-throw line.

American basketball coach
Basketball Sports

We can’t win at home. We can’t win on the road. I don’t know where else we can play.

Canadian hockey coach, general manager & commentator
Hockey Sports

He told me he caddied in the same group with me in the Hot Springs Open. That's why I voted for him, because he was a caddie.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer
Golf Sports

Watching a shootout is like admitting you watch  Survivor or search the internet for porn.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive
Hockey Sports

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me; I want all the kids to copulate me.

professional baseball player
Misspokements Sports

I'm happy for him [Gil Hodges]; that is, if you think becoming a big league manager is a good thing to have happen to you.

American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one.

Golf Situations Sports

After indulging in some heavy, late-night research with scholarly friends, Bobby was driving back to his hotel, innocently enough, when he was sideswiped by several empty cars lurking at curbside.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter
Football Sports

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.

professional golfer
Misspokements Sports

Turner looks a bit shaky and unsteady, but I think he's going to bat on – one ball left.

Sports

It's kind of like tumbling around inside a giant clothes-drier.

American motorcycle racer
Sports

Ten thousand bucks if ya knock him outta the game. I don't care if ya hit him with a whiskey bottle when he gets off the bus.

American football player
Football Sports

I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

He now floats like an anchor, stings like a moth.

Boxing Sports

You’d be a overweight neurotic fighter too if your name was Shirley Crabtree.

Sports

Can I bite him?

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

Watching an America's Cup race is like watching grass grow.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer
Sports

I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

Misspokements Sports Time

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

(1945 – ) American humorist (co-founder of National Lampoon)
Golf Sports