Subject: Sports (Page 61)

I told Zollie Volchok [Sonics general manager] we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

American basketball player & coach
Basketball Entertainment Music Sports

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

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

If you know how to cheat, start now

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

I don't mind starting the season with a bunch of unknowns. I just don't like finishing a season with a bunch of them.

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

Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head… no harm done.

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

Shot Off Woman's Leg Helps Nicklaus to 66

Golf Headlines Sports

Winning is better than the next worse thing.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Misspokements Sports

He should know better than that. He knows I only drink scotch.

Canadian professional hockey goalie
Body Hockey Sports

Las Vegas is the oasis of outstretched palms.

English boxing journalist & commentator
Money Places Sports

It took three guys to bring down Baltimore Colts tight end John Mackey and the lucky ones fell off.

(1921 – 2005) American broadcaster
Football Sports

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

When I am right, no one remembers. When I am wrong, no one forgets.

American baseball umpire
Baseball Sports

I don't want to get into a 'He said, she said' with the refs… I'm the 'he.'

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

Princess Anne’s horse is literally eating up the ground.

horse racing commentator
Misspokements Sports

The only way we could have, was to have shot him before the game started.

Canadian hockey player & coach
Hockey Sports

I’ve never seen a guy on the DL [Disabled List] with pulled fat.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Have you noticed that whatever sport you’re trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Sports

If you hit Polonia 100 fly balls, you could make a movie out of it — Catch 22.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist
Sports

You usually wind up staying up all night, or until your best player comes in.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Handicap: An allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

Definitions Golf Sports