Subject: Sports (Page 21)

This is lap 54; after that, it’s 55, 56, 57, 58.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt; thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.

(1929 – ) English middle-distance athlete, physician & academic
Sports

The last time I saw anything like this I was playing for Tastee Freeze in the Little League.

professional baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Insults Sports

I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. It doesn't worry me in the least to see a batsman hurt, rolling around screaming and blood on the pitch.

Australian crickete
Sports

Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

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

How hard is it to coach track? … tell ‘em to stay to the left and get back as fast as you can.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Sports

Well the frog men finally got Rosie.

(1925 – ) American professional football player
Football

Here’s Wellwood, seven-and-oh in the faceoffs, plus-two, two assists, played 20 minutes, drew eight minutes on the power play, lost a tooth and a pint of blood. What a guy.

Canadian hockey player, coach & commentator
Hockey Sports

Always remember: golf clubs don’t float.

Golf Sports

What makes him unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.

American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

I've been big ever since I was little.

American football player
Appearance Body Football Sports

Princess Anne’s horse is literally eating up the ground.

horse racing commentator
Misspokements Sports

You don't hit with your face.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Appearance Baseball Yogi-isms

When Neil Armstong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object; I knew immediately what it was… that was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Activities Baseball Sports

It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

(1940 – ) Italian-American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

For over 20 years the Boston Celtics have stood for something. The only thing they stand for now is the [national] anthem.

American sportswriter
Basketball Sports

He has the touch of a gay hairdresser.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator
Golf Sports

The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing tartan trousers.

English professional golfer
Appearance Clothing Golf Sports

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling, and golf. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with golf.

Golf Problems Sports

Hornets Will Accent Throwing Game in ’81

Headlines Sports