Subject: Misspokements (Page 52)

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

We are for the underdog, no matter how much of a dog he is.

(1898 – 1991) U.S. senator (Kentucky) & Major League Baseball commissioner

We know where they are; they’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

(1921 – ) former First Lady of the United States & actress

Ray Wilkins' day will come one night.

English football player & manager

Imported from a little town in Italy… Fresno.

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

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

It is kisstomary to cuss the bride.

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

That’s what I call the ultimate laxative.

Canadian Prime Minister of Sports

Why do you always insist on playing while I’m trying to conduct?

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

The symbol of peace… the pigeon!

Irish sports broadcaster

That is what has made America last these past 200 centuries.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president

I couldn’t care less about all those fiction stories about what happened in the year 1500 or 1600. Half of them aren’t even true.

professional golfer

Until they split off into all them other denumerations.

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

Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

The officer ain’t interested in no renimiscencesof yours.

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

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

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I couldn't done it without my players.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I’m not a believer in luck… but I do believe you need it.

I'm flying by the edge of my seat.

I don’t mean he missed him, but he just didn’t get him when he put the tag on him.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer