Subject: Misspokements (Page 17)

It took me 20 years to memorize the deformaties of the room.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Misspokements TV/Movie Quotes

It’s a battle with himself and with the ticking fingers of the clock.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

Roy Keane – his face punches the air.

Scottish football player & broadcaster
Misspokements

The greatest thing just happened to me… I just got indicted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame; they had a standing observation for me.

football coach
Misspokements

Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.

American football player
Football Misspokements Sports

A woman should cleave into her husband… right here in this house is where Edith’s cleavage belongs.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Misspokements TV/Movie Quotes

 Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

professional baseball player & manager
Intelligence Misspokements

It was six and half a dozen, and six won.

English football player & commentator
Misspokements

… standing there making a sitting target of himself.

English boxing manager & trainer
Boxing Misspokements Sports

I remember your name perfectly, but I just can’t think of your face.

(1844 – 1930) English dean at Oxford whose name is given to the accidental transposition of sounds of two or more words
Intelligence Misspokements

Morcelli has four fastest 1500-meter times ever; and all those times are at 1500 meters.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

I don’t think he’s gonna come Edith. He just ain’t got none of that, waddya call, family unconscious.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Misspokements TV/Movie Quotes

Craig Bellamy has literally been on fire.

Scottish football player & manager
Communication Language Misspokements

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Misspokements

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

(1943 – ) British prime minister & politician
Conflict Fights Misspokements

You don’t like to see hookers going down on players like that.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

You might not think that’s cricket, and it’s not; it’s motor racing.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader and that puts another keg in the Cubs’ coffin.

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

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

(1961 – ) 44th U.S. president
Government Health Misspokements

[Paul Revere] did warn the British… and I know my American history.

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