Subject: Misspokements (Page 18)

The crowd noise has gone up several octaves since the beginning of the game!

Why did you do that? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam!

(1879 – 1974) film producer

That’s how ya got your Chinatown, your Harlems, your Little Italy… all them grettos.

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

Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

My handicap is that I don’t have a big enough beer cooler for the back of my golf cart.

professional football player

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I’ve got ten pairs of training shoes… one for every day of the week.

(1966 – ) English dance-pop singer, actress & former model

Why does everybody stand up and sing ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’ when they’re already there?

professional baseball player

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

Gentlemen, for your information, I have a question to ask you.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

And there’s no damage to the car… except to the car itself.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Playing in this nice weather really makes me remember all the times I got stung by a bee.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

U.S. history – that’s part of your whole American heresy.

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

I always enjoy animal acts.

(1872 – 1933) 30th U.S. president

Defensively, I think it’s important for us to tackle.

professional football player

[Osama Bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

Third base is certainly a reactionary position.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.

(1950 – ) American politician & 47th governor of Texas

I don’t like to look back in retrospect.

professional football player

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