Subject: Sports (Page 60)

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game and if that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.

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

(We) should be allowed to wear shorts; God almighty, (LPGA) women are allowed to wear ‘em, and we’ve got better legs than they do.

professional golfer
Golf Misspokements Sports

Have another donut you fat pig!

Canadian hockey player & general manager
Hockey Sports

Once bitten, it is akin to having your neck punctured in Transylvania… there is no known antidote.

golf course architect
Golf Sports

Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer
Golf Sports

Four-letter Word: Par for the coarse.

Definitions Golf Language Sports

In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg… but leukemia is worse still.

English former football player & manager
Health Misspokements Sports

I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.


Sports

Shooting is just like toenails. They may fall off occasionally, but you know they'll always come back.

American basketball player
Basketball Sports

It is completely dead out there. I’ve been phoning myself up and disguising my voice just for a bit of interest.

English football player & manager
Sports

Part of the learning curve in Edmonton is learning to hate Calgary.

professional hockey player
Hockey Sports

Jay Bell is 0-for-6 in this series with 10 homers and 52 RBIs.

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

Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team; they got him from Philadelphia.

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

Slumps are like a soft bed; they're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

(1947 – ) professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

(1803 – 1857) English writer
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 know I’m getting better at golf because I’m hitting fewer spectators.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president
Golf Sports

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

American basketball player & broadcaster
Basketball Sports

[Punter] Bill Bradley kicks them so high and so short you can't run them back; you have to fair catch every one. Us coaches call that the punt of no return.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator
Football Language Sports

The way he’s swinging the bat, he won’t get a hit until the 20th century.

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