Subject: Sports (Page 73)

The stopwatch has stopped. It's up to God and the referee now. The referee is Pat Horan. God is God.

Irish Gaelic games commentator
God Sports

I told my team it doesn't matter… there are 750 million people in China who don't even know this game was played. The next day, a guy called me from China and asked, 'What happened, Coach?

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Swing hard in case you hit it.

(1961 – ) American football player
Golf Sports

Ever since he’s been a little boo-aw.

Canadian hockey coach
Hockey Sports

Oi, leave our flies alone, Jardine. They’re the only friends you’ve got here.

Stephen Gascoigne (1878 – 1942) Australian sports fan & heckler
Sports

Golf is my real profession – show business pays my greens fees.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Acting Entertainment Golf Sports

Mansell handles corners better than Maradona.

Auto racing Signs 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

Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five.

(1918 – 2009) radio broadcaster
Golf Sports

If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.

football coach
Football Sports

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager
Baseball Sports Success

I'll decide when to write my own obituary.

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports

I'd rather fight than score.

Canadian hockey player
Conflict Fights Hockey Sports

The way defenses are operating these days, the other team starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

American college basketball coach
Basketball Sports

Capece is kaput.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

I slept like a baby. Every two hours I woke up and cried.

Canadian hockey coach
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

I’m not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.

professional football general manager
Football Misspokements Sports

The game was closer than the score indicated.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Always remember one thing: From the time the game starts until it ends, you and I are the only sane men on the ice.

professional ice hockey referee
Hockey Sports

His face is sagging with tension.

English sports commentator
Appearance Misspokements Sports