Subject: Sports (Page 76)

In a perfect world, a fair world, Bob Hayes should be forced to carry a small calf on his shoulder when he runs the dashes…Mark Spitz, in all fairness, would swim with a sea anchor…[and] Ella Fitzgerald must sing every note with a mouth full of Tootsie Rolls.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter
Entertainment Life Places Sports World

One night we play like King Kong, the next night like Fay Wray.

American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

(Leo) Durocher claims he was sacked forty times (by Larry MacPhail) in his five years as Dodger manager, but I was there and I can verify only twenty-seven.

American baseball executive
Baseball Sports

The Rangers…

Canadian professional hockey goalie
Hockey Sports

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

Frank Bruno says I'm chicken. Well you can tell him I've come home to roost.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

Man that guy is ripped! I mean, I've got the washboard stomach, too. It's just that mine has about two months of laundry on top of it.

Canadian hockey player
Appearance Body Hockey Sports

I'm really not a Facebook or Twitter guy; I'm a prime-rib-and-baked-potato guy.

American baseball player & manager
Baseball People Self Sports

Real golfers, no matter what the provocation, never strike a caddie with the driver; the sand wedge is far more effective.

Golf Sports

I used to go to the driving range to practice driving without slicing; now I go to the driving range to practice slicing without swearing.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist
Communication Golf Speech Sports

I’ll always be Number 1 to myself.

professional basketball player
Misspokements Sports

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


Sports

Managing a baseball team is like trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

I was the worst hitter ever; I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

The bell went ding and I went dong.

British boxer
Boxing

I know it's said that I can't punch, but you should see me putting the cat out at night.

boxer
Boxing Sports

The company should change its name to Mike.

American basketball player
Basketball Sports

Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport; dancing is a contact sport.

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

If Mike Tyson gets any better, he’ll be hitting Lou Rawls while he sings the National Anthem.

American television personality
Boxing Sports

Haven't they suffered enough?

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

They’re really keen on the strawberry flavored ones.

Australian basketball player
Sports