Subject: Misspokements (Page 19)

I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid.

professional football player & broadcaster

I work for myself. I’m what ya call an entramanure.

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

The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

American writer

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day; but if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

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

The main quality a great third base coach must have is a fast runner.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach

He's usually a good puller – but he couldn't get it up that time.

Australian cricketer & commentator

He was between a rock and the deep blue sea.

I don't think he's a thousand percent mentally.

Irish football player, author & broadcaster

Largess, smalless, any kind of ess.

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

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

That’s cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

The hookeries and massageries – the whole world is turning into a regular Sodom and Glaucamorra.

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

It shows ‘us vs. them,’ and I’m on the ‘us’ side.

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

I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.

Canadian hockey player

I don’t care what the tape says… I didn’t say it.

football coach

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

If I look confused it is because I am thinking.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

The next time I send a damn fool for something, I go myself.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

My fellow astronauts…

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

I was readin’ an article about the animal population – there’s millions of pets explodin’.

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