Subject: Misspokements (Page 28)

I feel like a drunken man who doesn’t have a drink.

English football player, manager & sports commentator
Alcohol Food/Drink Misspokements

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

American basketball player
Education Intelligence Misspokements School

If I wasn’t talking, I wouldn’t know what to say.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer
Communication Misspokements Speech

Why do you always insist on playing while I’m trying to conduct?

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

Gracie : Breakfast will be ready in six minutes.
George Edwards: Six minutes?
Gracie: Yeah, I just put on two three minute eggs.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)
Misspokements TV/Movie Quotes

When we’re competing for the Stanley Cup, this record won’t mean a thing.

professional hockey player
Misspokements Sports

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

English football player & manager
Misspokements

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Misspokements

The sun doesn’t shine on the same dog’s butt every day but we sure didn’t expect a total eclipse.

American football player, coach & college athletics administrator
Misspokements Sports

Welcome to Worcester where we have just seen Barry Richards hit one of Basil D'Oliveira's balls clean out of the ground.

cricket announcer
Misspokements Sports

I’m in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

(1936 – ) English singer
Misspokements

I’m due at the ballet. They’re doin’ Swoon Lake.

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

Well, um, you know, something’s neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so, I suppose, as Shakespeare said.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense
Beliefs Misspokements

If I had a blank piece of paper there would be five names on it.

English football player & manager
Misspokements

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day; but if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

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

I don't know what impressive is, but Joe was impressive tonight.

wife of fighter Joe Bugner
Boxing Misspokements Sports

Before I start speaking, I'd like to say something.

Misspokements Speech

That’s the fourth extra base hit for the Padres – two doubles and a triple.

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

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

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

That’s how ya got your Chinatown, your Harlems, your Little Italy… all them grettos.

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

Here they come, every color of the rainbow: black, white, brown.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements