Subject: Sports (Page 45)

We have a lot of success with a dumb person calling plays. I'm hesitant to have a smart one call them.

(1937 – ) football coach, sportscaster, author & speaker
Football Sports

It was close for Zaheer, Lawson threw his hands in the air and Marsh threw his head in the air.

cricket commentator
Misspokements Sports

Four out of five dentists surveyed recommended playing hockey.

Hockey Sports

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

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

Knuckleball: A curveball that doesn't give a damn.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist
Baseball Sports

I guess I'll have to gain 60 pounds, start smoking a cigar and wear clothes that don't match.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

Yes, and so is everyone else in the league.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Baseball Sports

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter
History Sports Time

If you know how to cheat, start now

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

I wouldn’t play the French at marbles, never mind Rugby League. All we will ever learn off them is how to fight and spit and bite each other.

Rugby coach
Sports

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

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

Everybody has a plan, ’till they get hit.

(1966 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Baseball Murphy’s Laws Sports

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

(1803 – 1857) English writer
Sports

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

British Olympic decathlon champion
Misspokements Sports

First triple I ever had.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Communication Language Sports

It's a good thing Babe Ruth isn't still with the Yankees. If he was, George Steinbrenner would have him bat seventh and say he's overweight.

American baseball player
Baseball Body Fat Sports

Well Phil, tell us about your amazing third leg.

Scottish television commentator
Sports

Ali wouldn't have hit Joe Louis on the bum with a handful of rice.

American boxer
Boxing Sports