Subject: Misspokements (Page 21)

Templeton is as hot as you can be and still walk!

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I’ve been dunked on by (Vitaly) Potapenko and now (Zan) Tabak; the good part is that they don’t make posters of those guys.

professional basketball player

That was a maximization of a minimization of hits.

professional baseball player

It’s a humbling thing being humble.

Ohio State football player

Edith, at my age I don’t need roughage – I need smoothage!

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

Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna’s Lotus sounding rough?

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I don’t care what the tape says… I didn’t say it.

football coach

Nah, I’m just a prizefighter.

(1919 – 1990) American boxing champion

He’s got the balls and when he’s holding them he controls the tempo.

American professional tennis player

Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.

English former football player & manager

All of the Mets' road wins against Los Angeles this year have been at Dodger Stadium.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I don’t pay any attention to him… I don’t even ignore him.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

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

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

I would have brung you flowers too, but I read in a magazine that they suck up all the carbon monoxygen.

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

Of course the Soviet Union was bound to fall! It's on the edge of the map!

(1971 – ) American actress

The first two-syllable word I learned when I was growing up was "discretion.”

Irish football player, author & broadcaster

You have tasted a whole worm!

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

Now it comes to a simple equation – who can stand the heat.

British sports commentator

They seem cold out there, they’re rubbing each other and he’s only come in his shorts.

television journalist & newscaster

It was gone before it got outta here; it was going that fast.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch, and one on the throttle.

auto racing commentator