Subject: Misspokements (Page 28)

Play some Picasso.

professional basketball player
Misspokements Sports

They may have regained all 40 yards… in fact, they may have.

Football Misspokements Sports

All your friends are gonna be green with envious.

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

The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports Time

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

To hell with them small towns, I'll stick to New York.

(1893 – 1980) American singer, pianist, comedian & actor
Acting Entertainment Misspokements

The streets are safe in Philadelphia – it’s only the people who make them unsafe.

(1920 – 1991) American police officer & mayor of Philadelphia
Conflict Crime Misspokements Places

Ever hear of the old saying, “grass don’t grow on a busy street?”

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

There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, ‘You never know.’

professional baseball player
Misspokements

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Government Law Lawyers Misspokements

She caught a touch of laryngosis from the smoke.

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

That’s the kind of luck poor Mr. Lincoln had the night he went to the movies, and he sat in John Wilkes’ booth.

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

I am providing you with a copulation of answers to several questions raised…

(1936 – ) American politician, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Misspokements

People in Preston ward are invited to a meeting at 7.15 pm tonight in St. Mary's Church Hall… to meet councillors and beat police officers.

Mayor of New York
Misspokements

You could be like Anita O’Brien, hustlin’ fruits.

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

For those of you watching who do not have television sets, live commentary is on Radio 2.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Entertainment Misspokements Sports Television

We got to practice a little bit. I want these guys to be bouncing around like a pogo stick on Viagra.

football coach
Football Misspokements Sports

I paid too much for it, but it’s worth it.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Misspokements Money

His nerves, his memory… and I can’t remember the third thing.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer
Golf Misspokements Sports

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.

professional basketball player
Misspokements Sports

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist
Entertainment Misspokements Music