Subject: Sports (Page 84)

My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

professional football player
Appearance Body Football Health Sports

I wish I could remember everything I told him.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

If I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her up.

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

I told you I needed to feed my family; they offered me 3 years at $21 million – that’s not going to cut it.

professional basketball player
Basketball Money Sports

John Conteh has a neck like a stately home staircase.

English boxer
Appearance Body Boxing Sports

If I'm having brain surgery, I'll be darned if I want that surgeon playing for a tie.

American college football coach
Football Sports

Fortunately he is 22 years old, so his right wrist should be the strongest muscle in his body.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator
Sports

I'm going down so often these days you'd think I was making a blue movie.

English boxer
Boxing Sports

Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft; today it’s called golf.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator
Golf Sports

We work in the toy department.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist
Communication Reading/Writing Sports

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

horse racing commentator
Misspokements Sports

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic
Golf Sports

I’ll have a cup of tea.

Kenyan runner
Sports

The amount of wind will vary inversely with the number and experience of the people you take on board.

Murphy’s Laws Sports

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats; after all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

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

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

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

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

Most one run games are lost, not won.

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

Contrary to the old wives' tale that bloody-minded trainers put around, a little love-in before the main event can do you more good than a rub-down with The Sporting Life.

English boxer
Boxing Sex Sports

If you wish to hide your character, do not play golf.

golf writer
Characteristics Golf Sports

Why should I have become elevated to a position of first-page importance merely because I am somewhat more dexterous than most in manipulating a contrivance of catgut and wood which is commonly called a tennis racquet?

first American female professional tennis player
Sports Success