Subject: Misspokements (Page 18)

And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Here they come, every color of the rainbow: black, white, brown.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

She is going to join the gym to lose some weights.

Winning is better than the next worse thing.

American baseball pitcher

Spencer’s running across field calling out, ‘Come inside me, come inside me.’

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

Better teams win more often than the teams that are not so good.

professional hockey coach

An ideal mind is the devil's playground.

You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I can't tell who's leading… it's either Oxford or Cambridge.

British news commentator

You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.

Australian football player

I am not going to speak much, otherwise I’ll again say something.

(1938 – 2010) Russian politician

I can definitely say, that had the police not been there this morning, there would have been no arrests.

British politician

The United States has so much to offer the third world war.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

That’s the trouble with directors; always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

He's got too many oars in the fire.

We estimate, and this isn’t an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I’ll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.

American professional boxer

He hasn't been the normal Paul Scholes today, and he's not the only one.

English football player & analyst

[Osama Bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.

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

 This job is better than I could get if I used my college degree, which, at this point, I can't remember what it was in.

professional football player