Subject: Misspokements (Page 50)

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

skier
Misspokements Sports

Sparky is the only guy I know who’s written more books than he has read.

baseball broadcaster
Misspokements Reading/Writing Sports

Opening games make me nervous; to tell the truth, I’d rather open with our second game.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Misspokements Sports

You rejoin us at a very appropriate time – Ray Illingworth has just relieved himself at the pavilion end!

cricket announcer
Misspokements Sports

I’d be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

American baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

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

British boxer
Misspokements Sports

Yeah, I'm cocky and I am arrogant, but that doesn't mean I'm not a nice person.

professional hockey player
Misspokements

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Beliefs Misspokements People Places

An ideal mind is the devil's playground.

Misspokements

One of those Canadian proverbs.

professional baseball player
Misspokements Places

I feel like a drunken man who doesn’t have a drink.

English football player, manager & sports commentator
Alcohol Food/Drink Misspokements

Our offense is like the Pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

American basketball player
Basketball Misspokements Sports

I am B-U-Z-Y, busy!

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

You either win or you lose… there's no in between.

English football player & manager
Misspokements

It's like what Yogi said… what did Yogi say?

American baseball player
Misspokements

I don’t drink, I’m a totalitarian.

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian
Alcohol Characteristics Food/Drink Misspokements

That’s how ya got your Chinatown, your Harlems, your Little Italy… all them grettos.

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

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 have been laid up with intentional flu.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Health Misspokements

He treats us like men; he lets us wear earrings.

college football player
Football Misspokements Sports

It was strange. The only English words I saw were Sony and Mitsubishi.

American baseball player
Baseball Communication Language Misspokements Sports