Subject: Misspokements (Page 22)

I’m a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy… so is my wife.

professional baseball player
Misspokements Sports

New York Champagne – that’s a phony label; they don’t grow raisins in New York.

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

Is that the best game you ever pitched?

Baseball Misspokements Sports

I play football. I’m not trying to be a professor. The tests don’t seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven’t been through in school.

Football Misspokements Sports

(They) should know each other like a book; they’ve been ex-teammates for years now.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Misspokements

I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.

professional football player
Football Misspokements Sports

But obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.

(1964 – ) U.S. governor (Alaska) commentator & author
Misspokements Places

Billy Almon has all of his inlaw and outlaws here this afternoon.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Family Misspokements

Neil Harvey, standing at leg slip with his legs wide apart, waiting for a tickle.

cricket announcer
Misspokements

It’s a great advantage to be able to hurdle with both legs.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader and that puts another keg in the Cubs’ coffin.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Sure I've got one; it's a perfect twenty-twenty.

American football player
Intelligence Misspokements

And there’s the unmistakable figure of Joe Mercer… or is it Lester Piggott.

British horse racing commentator
Misspokements Sports

I can tell you it’s a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

There was three minutes to go about two minutes ago.

English football player & manager
Misspokements Sports Time

It’s more than magnificent, it’s mediocre.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Misspokements

Sportscaster: The extra point is no good!

Robert Scott: Then it isn’t an extra point, is it?

Football Misspokements Sports

Well, I see in the game in Minnesota that Terry Felton has relieved himself on the mound in the second inning.

sportscaster & former professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager
Boxing Misspokements Sports

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist
Entertainment Misspokements Music

Barack and Michelle Obama] have power in their words; they could refudiate [sic] what it is that this group is saying.

(1964 – ) U.S. governor (Alaska) commentator & author
Misspokements