Subject: Sports (Page 86)

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes at its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
Golf Situations Sports

Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.

Canadian hockey coach, general manager & commentator
Hockey Sports

We play a man-to-man defense. Person to person sounds like a telephone call.

Basketball Sports

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. It doesn't worry me in the least to see a batsman hurt, rolling around screaming and blood on the pitch.

Australian crickete
Sports

(Willie) McCovey swings and misses, and it’s fouled back.

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

Mike's like a Gershwin or Beethoven. You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter
Boxing Sports

She's slower than trying to bake a pie with a lighter.

American professional golfer
Golf Sports

Las Vegas is the oasis of outstretched palms.

English boxing journalist & commentator
Boxing Money Sports Wordplay

She literally wiped the court with her opponent.

Misspokements Sports

Eating will now be an entirely new ball game. I might have to buy a new pair of trousers.

English jockey
Appearance Eating Sports

If you see the ball, hit it… that’s what it’s there for.

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

Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.

professional baseball player
Misspokements Sports

The company should change its name to Mike.

American basketball player
Basketball Sports

Putting an ex-fighter in the business world is like putting silk stockings on a pig.

boxing manager, trainer & cornerman
Boxing Occupations Sports

First triple I ever had.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Communication Language Sports

That putt had more breaks than a government job.

golf writer
Golf Sports

They are like hot air dryers in public lavatories. They are a good idea, but take too long.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator
Golf Sports

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

Canadian hockey coach
Hockey Sports

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Baseball Sports

If you think Barkley was mad before the fight, wait until he sees how many people are taking part of his purse.

professional boxing promoter
Boxing Sports