Subject: Misspokements (Page 52)

And later on, it’s the Syracuse Orangemen against the Indiana Hoosiers from Hawaii.

It has made the richest prize in sport the richest prize in sport.

American boxer

All I’m asking for is what I want.

professional baseball player

I’m not an athlete; I’m a professional baseball player.

professional baseball player

You guys lineup, alphabetically by height.

football coach

And Michael Schumacher is actually in a very good position… he’s in last place.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Play some Picasso.

professional basketball player

Until they split off into all them other denumerations.

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

We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward.

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

Are you any relation to your brother Marv?

basketball player

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

professional hockey player

You don’t like to see hookers going down on players like that.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight; he is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket & flew to the moon. What was his name? Apollo Creed?

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

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

To all you hunters who kill animals for food, shame on you; you ought to go to the store and buy the meat that was made there, where no animals were harmed.

The lights are shining quite darkly.

cricket commentator

There’s a shot up the alley… oh, it’s just foul.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

(1879 – 1974) film producer