Subject: Misspokements (Page 14)

A sad ending, albeit a happy one, here at Montreal for today’s Grand Prix.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

That’s the fourth extra base hit for the Padres – two doubles and a triple.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

As I said before and I said yesterday, this is one of the key questions that will be decided or not decided at Edinburgh.

British politician & novelist

New York Champagne – that’s a phony label; they don’t grow raisins in New York.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Barack and Michelle Obama] have power in their words; they could refudiate [sic] what it is that this group is saying.

(1964 – ) U.S. governor (Alaska) commentator & author

…a movie about nuns, starring Ingrid Bernstein.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Imported from a little town in Italy… Fresno.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

American writer

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

Roy Keane – his face punches the air.

Scottish football player & broadcaster

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the – to the back.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

It’s lap 26 of 58, which unless I’m very much mistaken is half way.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

It’s absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.

baseball player

He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin’ sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed.

(1964 – ) U.S. governor (Alaska) commentator & author

They will pass the father-son tandem of Buddy Bell and Yogi Berra.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician

I told him no. N, O, W — no!

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

That was the straw that twisted the camel's neck.

Certain people are for me and certain people are pro me.

English football player & manager