Subject: Sports (Page 33)

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought your ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host
Baseball Sports

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

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

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Football Sports

Most football players are temperamental… that’s 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

professional football player
Football Sports

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

American baseball player
Baseball Life Sports

Bogey: The number of strokes needed to finish a hole by a golfer of average skill and above-average honesty.

Definitions Golf Sports

Gibson's the luckiest pitcher I've ever seen because he always picks the night to pitch when the other team doesn't score any runs.

American baseball player & commentator
Baseball Sports

Howard Cosell would rather shave a wild lion with a dull razor than fight me. 

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

I can airmail the golf ball, but sometimes I don't put the right address on it.

American professional golfer
Golf Sports

Capece is kaput.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Since then we've changed the locks.

Mayor of Scranton PA
Boxing Sports

Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns.

Golf Sports

Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20,000 people.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

I want to be like Maxwell House coffee – good to the last drop.

professional baseball player
Basketball Sports

They write more books.

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

Forty years after his heyday, an old opponent met Willie on the street and asked: "Do you recognize me?"
Willie looked hard and considered before finally replying: "Lie down so I can recognize you."

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

football coach
Football Sports

You can put that in one word… world class darts!

British sports commentator
Sports

If you could eliminate the occasional bad shot you would be the first person to do so.

American professional golfer
Golf Sports

It takes brains; it's not like forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense… on defense you have to be thinking.

American hockey player
Hockey Sports

I can be found the next couple of months trying to perfect my new punch – the lip-buttoner.

American boxing champion
Boxing Sports