Subject: Misspokements (Page 22)

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

British boxer

I wish they'd hurry up and get their act in gear.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

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

There is one word in baseball that says it all, and that word is, ‘You never know.’

professional baseball player

He looked like a rabbit with headlights there.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

All the Padres need is a flyball in the air.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

And there goes Juantorina down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.

BBC commentator

Why did you do that? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam!

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Such Bulgarians should be vanished.

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

They’ve taken the foot off Johnny Grubb… uh, they’ve taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

A husband’s conjungal and a wife’s convivial obligation.

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

We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

professional basketball player

Beckenbauer really has gambled all his eggs.

English former football player & manager

The two of us all alone and, well, we was imminent together.

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

There’s nothing wrong with revenge – it’s the best way to get even.

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

Hector Torres, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

(Willie) McCovey swings and misses, and it’s fouled back.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

And he’s done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I’ve never seen a game like this; every game this year has been like this.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator