Subject: Sports (Page 4)

Don King dresses like a pimp and speechifies like a store-front preacher.

boxing writer
Boxing Sports

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around the ball park that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter
Baseball Sports

Magic Johnson is the best player who plays on the ground, and Michael Jordan is the best player who plays in the air.

American basketball player
Basketball Sports

It is a catch he would have held 99 times out of one thousand.

cricket commentator
Misspokements Sports

I believe in rules… sure I do; if there weren’t any rules, how could you break them?

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

Good pitching always stops good hitting and vice versa.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

There are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics; Michael Jordan has already mastered the skill most needed for political success: how to stay aloft without visible means of support.

(1925 – 2013) British prime minister & politician
Basketball Government Politics Sports

Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer
Golf Sports

Brooks [Robinson] never asked anyone to name a candy bar after him; in Baltimore, people named their children after him.

sports writer
Baseball Sports

If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game would be played far better than it is.

golf author
Golf Sports

If you want a track team to win the high jump you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot.

Murphy’s Laws Sports Success

It takes longer to learn to be a good golfer than it does to become a brain surgeon. On the other hand, you don't get to ride around on a cart, drink beer, eat hot dogs and stare at the cart girl's tits all day if you are performing brain surgery.

Golf Occupations Sports Work

Football is a fertility festival: eleven sperm trying to get into the egg; I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

(1965 – ) Icelandic singer-songwriter
Football Sports

In pro boxing, let's face it, the name of the game is how much you make – not how many honors won. Billy Walker was the most successful flop in history.

English boxing journalist & commentator
Boxing Sports

He slides into second with a stand up double.

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

Tee your ball high… the air offers less resistance than dirt.

(1940 – ) professional golfer
Golf Sports

I'm just what America needs – another unemployed black man.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
Basketball Sports

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

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

I lost it by default, not de-punch.

English boxer
Boxing Sports

Some quiet guys are inwardly outgoing.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements People Sports