Subject: Misspokements (Page 22)

He’s 31 this year – last year he was 30.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Age Colemanballs Misspokements

He has me sitting on pins and cushions waiting.

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian
Misspokements Situations

And Michael Schumacher is actually in a very good position… he’s in last place.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

(1921 – ) former First Lady of the United States & actress
Communication Misspokements Speech

He was between a rock and the deep blue sea.

Misspokements Mixed metaphors

There was three minutes to go about two minutes ago.

English football player & manager
Misspokements Sports Time

Best player ever? … I’d have to go with the immoral Babe Ruth.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

There comes a time in every man’s life… and I’ve had many of them.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Communication Death Misspokements Speech Time

Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

This series has been swings and pendulums all the way through.

British sports commentator
Misspokements Sports

If you understand English, press 1; if you do not understand English, press 2.

Communication Language Misspokements

Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Golf Misspokements Sports

This is only a little mispensation.

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

I managed good but, boy, did they play bad.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Sir, you have been caught fighting a liar in the quad, you will leave Oxford by the next town drain.

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

I don’t think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona.

English football player & manager
Misspokements Sports

Let's close our eyes and see what happens.

English football player
Misspokements

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

American professional tennis player
Misspokements Sports

His strength is his strength, his strength is.

English football player & manager
Colemanballs Misspokements

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Misspokements Money

He just can’t believe what’s not happening to him.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Situations