Subject: Misspokements (Page 32)

If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man alive.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Death Happiness Misspokements Speech

You don’t like to see hookers going down on players like that.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.

professional basketball player
Misspokements Sports

We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
America Education Intelligence Misspokements Places World

Wouldn’t have to live in miscomfort.

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

He's a leading leader on this football team.

American football coach
Football Misspokements Sports

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

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

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 Misspokements Sports

I have reiterated over again what I have said before.

(1910 – 1991) American mayor (New York City)
Communication Misspokements

I was in Saint-Etienne two years ago. It’s much the same as it is now, although now it’s completely different.

English football player & manager
Misspokements Places

As I remember it, the bases were loaded.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

He dribbles a lot and the opposition don’t like it – you can see it all over their faces.

English former football player & manager
Misspokements Sports

In the words of the old song, it’s a long time from May to December but, you know, it’s an equally long time from December to May.

professional football player, coach & executive
Misspokements Time

They speak all the languages of the rainbow here.

Scottish auto racer
Communication Language Misspokements

I’ll always be Number 1 to myself.

professional basketball player
Misspokements Sports

Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of the same today.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play.

British sports commentator
Misspokements Sports

George W. Bush did a incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

(1950 – ) American politician & 47th governor of Texas
Misspokements

Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

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

I don’t care what the tape says… I didn’t say it.

football coach
Misspokements Sports