Subject: Misspokements (Page 23)

No dice, Chicago. I’m giving the orders and we’re coming in. I guess the foot’s on the other hand now, isn’t it, Kramer?

(1947 – ) American actor

If you can’t make the putts and can’t get the man in from second on the bottom of the ninth, you’re not going to win enough football games in this league, and that’s the problem we had today.

football coach

That was like swatting June bugs off a fly.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Turner pulls into second with a sun-blown double.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest; if you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

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

I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session.

Texas politician

Reporter: Will you be rooting for the American League or National League in the All Star Game?

Dole: Probably.

(1923 – ) U.S. senator (Kansas) & presidential candidate

If England lose now, they will be leaving the field with their heads between their legs!

English cricketer

Largess, smalless, any kind of ess.

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

Concentration-wise, we’re having trouble crossing the line mentally from a toughness standpoint.

American football coach

This is unparalyzed in the state’s history.

Texas politician

Mrs. O’Leary’s cow is sorry, but Cleveland burned anyway.

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

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is ‘to be prepared.’

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

You could have blown me over with a feather.

He talks not probably enough yet, because of the experience he hasn't got.

English football player

The hell with the toothpicks; they say them things bust your emammal anyhow.

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

We got to practice a little bit. I want these guys to be bouncing around like a pogo stick on Viagra.

football coach

Andujar Cedeno to lead it off; he swings… and he is hit by a pitch… and it is hit over the wall and out of here for a home run.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Winning is better than the next worse thing.

American baseball pitcher

Then there was that dark horse with the golden arm, Mudassar Nazar.

British sports commentator

I’m telling you that Porsche was literally right up my arse in the fast lane of the motorway.