Subject: Misspokements (Page 24)

He's a leading leader on this football team.

American football coach
Football Misspokements Sports

And it’s a long drive down the line to centerfield.

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

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Communication Misspokements Speech

She caught a touch of laryngosis from the smoke.

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

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

I think that was a moment of cool panic there.

English former football player & manager
Misspokements

Three out of two.

(1971 – ) American actress
Misspokements TV/Movie Quotes

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

There’ll be only one winner now – in every sense.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.

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

The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.

English football player & announcer
Colemanballs Misspokements

Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

English football player & announcer
Misspokements Sports

There's three of us in the band, so we split everything straight down the middle.

(1947 – 2008) English drummer
Misspokements

I’m glad you’re doing this story on us and not on the WNBA; we’re so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

professional tennis player
Misspokements Sports

Fear was absolutely necessary; without it, I would have been scared to death.

American boxing champion
Boxing Misspokements Sports

Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the biggest guys on the field.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer
Football Misspokements Sports

The late start is due to the time.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Time

He was between a rock and the deep blue sea.

Misspokements Mixed metaphors

Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

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
Misspokements

The stronger the wetlands, the more likely the damage of the hurricane.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president
Misspokements