Subject: Misspokements (Page 4)

Hemmoroods

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

According to team rules, the vote has to be unanimous. It can be unanimous or out loud.

(1971 – ) American actress

I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.

football coach

No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play.

British sports commentator

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

When I played football, we were small, but we were slow. Our record was five and five; we lost five games at home and five on the road.

Texas businessman

If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.

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

It’s difficult to remember when you haven’t played it before.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

 It’s obvious these Russian swimmers are determined to do well on American soil.

British swimmer & sports commentator

My sister’s expecting a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle or an aunt.

college basketball player

In the hunt to buy the San Francisco Giants was George Shinn, owner of the Charlotte Harlots.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Now there’s three things you can do in a baseball game; you can win or you can lose or it can rain.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

[Coedness] is like a radical agenda forced on college students.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

He's the kind of player who usually comes along rarely and sometimes never.

(1927 – ) American football coach

There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for these players, but I also had some Gatorade just in case they were allergic to the water or vice versa.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

I ain't gonna be no escape-goat.

professional basketball player

A well-boiled icicle

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

Grubb goes back, back… he’s under the warning track and makes the play.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

It is not enough to be abstinent with other people, you also have to be abstinent alone; the Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery…. you can’t masturbate without lust!

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)