Subject: Misspokements (Page 5)

Once we were whining losers, but now we’re arrogant winners.

Buffalo Bills public relations man
Characteristics Misspokements Sports

The titular head… that’s the mother, ain’t it?

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
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Our offense is like the Pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

American basketball player
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You might not think that’s cricket, and it’s not; it’s motor racing.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Misspokements Reading/Writing

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
Alcohol Health Misspokements Sports

Nobody in football should be called a genius; a genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

American football player & commentator
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We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

professional basketball player
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These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.

American basketball player
Basketball Misspokements Sports

It'll take three good ones to be on in two today, Sir.

British golf writer & commentator
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Jimmy Hill: Don’t sit on the fence Terry, what chance do you think Germany has got of getting through?

Venables: I think it’s fifty-fifty.

English football player & manager
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My sport is about 90 percent strength and 40 per cent technique.

Wrist-wrestling champion
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Jenson Button is in the top ten… in eleventh position.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
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Congratulations to each and every one of you for the concert last night in New York and vice versa.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist
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It shows ‘us vs. them,’ and I’m on the ‘us’ side.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
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And the first five places are filled by five different cars.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

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

One of the great unknown champions because very little is known about him.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
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And he’s done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

Dirty laundry is coming home to roost.

Misspokements Mixed metaphors