Subject: Sports (Page 42)

What happens to me next year will happen to me no matter what happens.

professional basketball player
Future Misspokements Sports

It ain't nuthin' until I call it.

American baseball umpire
Baseball Sports

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

(1909–1959) American boxing champion
Sports

Golf: A game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose

(1856 – 1924) 28th U.S. president & politician
Golf Sports

Three things can happen when you put a [foot]ball in the air – and two of them are bad.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach
Football Sports

I grabbed it and squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

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

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

American baseball player
Baseball 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

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

He was asked to throw out the first ball at a World Series game; but … he looked at the ball and, instead of throwing it, he put it in his pocket and sat down.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
Activities Frugal Money Sports

Butch Lewis is making no attempt to get out of the corner… and is hanging his chin out like a lantern in a storm.

English boxing journalist & commentator
Boxing Sports

The team has come along slow but fast.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Baseball Sports

Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

We estimate, and this isn’t an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

Mike Tyson dropped me and when I looked up, the count was on five. I said to myself, ‘Damn, whatever happened to one to four.’

American boxer
Boxing Sports

The lead is now 6.9 seconds… in fact, it’s just under 7 seconds.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

I'd never buy my girl a watch… she's already got a clock over the stove.

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

If lessons are learned in defeat, as they say, our team is really getting a great education.

American football coach
Education Football Sports

The weak teams are Boston and New York; the strong ones are Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, and Gordie Howe.

professional hockey player
Hockey Sports