Subject: Sports (Page 3)

So what if they're taller? We'll play big.

college basketball coach
Appearance Basketball Body Sports

You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don’t have to walk any extra distance to get it.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer
Golf Sports

A good one iron shot is about as easy to come by as an understanding wife.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter
Golf Sports

Johnny Carson gently suggested to Cobb that Larry Holmes seemed to be always a step ahead of him

Cobb replied: Did it seem that way to you too?

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

I love doubleheaders; that way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager
Baseball Sports

Stroke: Any forward movement of the golf club that is made with the intention of hitting and moving the ball and is observed by another golfer.

Definitions Golf Sports

Some of ours [umpires] is so crooked that they can lay in a berth only when the train’s making a curve.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer
Baseball Beliefs Sports

If you’re caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron; not even God can hit a 1-iron.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer
God Golf Sports

A woman I know is engaged to a real golf nut.  They are supposed to get married next Saturday…but only if it rains.

Golf Marriage Sports

I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.

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

Call them pros, call them mercenaries – but in fact they are just grown-up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

Grand Prix driving is like balancing an egg on a spoon while shooting the rapids.

British racing driver
Auto racing Sports

I can do my sport no greater service.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

I miss the things like the camaraderie in the gym; I don’t miss being smacked in the mouth every day.

Irish professional boxer
Boxing Sports

Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Appearance Body Fat Hockey

If you’re mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It’s about the same.

professional football player
Football Sports

Magri has to do well against the unknown Mexican who comes from a famous family of five boxing brothers.

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements Sports

I’m the football coach around here and don’t you remember it.

football coach
Misspokements Sports

I'd love to fight Gerry Cooney. But I have my price – 25 cents and a loose woman.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

It's possible to spend money anywhere in the world if you put your mind to it, something I proved conclusively by running up huge debts in Cincinnati.

(1906 – 1991) American baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Money Places Sports

A sad ending, albeit a happy one, here at Montreal for today’s Grand Prix.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports