Subject: Misspokements (Page 25)

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 is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.

professional football coach

You either win or you lose… there's no in between.

English football player & manager

I can definitely say, that had the police not been there this morning, there would have been no arrests.

British politician

I’ll give you a definite maybe.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

Don't take any wooden Indians.

Beverly LaSalle: I'm a transvestite.

Edith Bunker: Could've fooled me; you ain't even got no accent.

(1923 – 2013) American actress

The black cloud is coming from the direction the wind is blowing. Now the wind is coming from where the black cloud is!

English cricketer & commentator

My wife made me a millionaire. Before she divorced me, I had three million.

professional hockey player

Go ahead, spew it off your chest.

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

That was a tremendous six. The ball was still in the air as it went over the boundary.

English cricketer

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

A woman should cleave into her husband… right here in this house is where Edith’s cleavage belongs.

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

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

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

I read part of it all the way through.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

…. Into lap 53, the penultimate last lap but one. 

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

In Willie DeWit, we have an all-American boy, even though he is a Canadian.

If everything were going good for him, he'd be having success.

American hockey coach

And the line-up for the final of the Women’s 400 meters hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator