Subject: Misspokements (Page 35)

My wife made me a millionaire. Before she divorced me, I had three million.

professional hockey player

Maybe my mind chewed off more than the mind should bite.

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

… New Jersey?

(1973 – ) American actress

Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin… unless this is the action, which it is.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

A sexagenarian? At his age? I think that’s disgusting!

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

I’ll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.

American professional boxer

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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

Owww… it caught ‘em right in the pants area.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer

That’s the fourth extra base hit for the Padres – two doubles and a triple.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

We’ve lost our last eight matches. The only team that we have beaten is Western Samoa. It’s a good job we didn’t play the whole of Samoa!

Welsh rugby player

That was a maximization of a minimization of hits.

professional baseball player

He can be lethal death.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

The candle is still very much in the melting pot.

Scottish soccer player & analyst

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

professional basketball player

Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I haven’t heard the president state that we’re at war… that’s why I too am not knowing… do we use the term intervention?… do we use war?… do we use squirmish?… what is it?

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

He’s got his hands on his knees and holds his head in despair.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

As you can see, visually, with your eyes… look up there! … that’s the sky!

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

British boxer

The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!

(1926 – ) English sports commentator