Subject: Sports (Page 78)

 If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter
Baseball Sports

We have only one person to blame, and that’s each other.

professional hockey player
Activities Hockey Misspokements

Baroness Summerskill: Mr Cooper, have you looked in the mirror lately and seen the state of your nose?
Cooper: Well, madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What's yours?

English boxing champion
Appearance Boxing Insults 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

I play football… I’m not trying to be a professor; the tests don’t seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven’t been through in school.

Clemson football recruit
Football Misspokements Sports

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

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

Tall men come down to my height when I hit ‘em in the body.

(1895 – 1983) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

The game is too long, the season is too long and the players are too long.

American basketball executive
Basketball Sports

I don’t want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.

professional basketball player
Basketball Misspokements Sports

Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'

(1963 – ) television host & comedian
Sports

Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf… I think it was my ex-wife.

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

Like they say, it ain’t over till the fat guy swings.

professional baseball player
Baseball Malaprops Sports

The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes.

(1927 – ) British journalist & author
Golf Sports

A well-adjusted man is one who can play golf as if it were a game.

Golf Sports

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Basketball Sports

I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make the putt.

Spanish professional golfer
Golf Sports

The more money the free agent signs for, the less effective he is the following season.

Murphy’s Laws Sports

It tastes like any other sport drink.

Japanese marathoner
Misspokements Sports

Nice guys finish last.

(1906 – 1991) American baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Sports

With one or two exceptions, colleges expect their players of games to be reasonably literate.

(1898 – 1971) English classical scholar & academic
Education School Sports