Subject: Misspokements (Page 35)

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

football coach

I can tell you it’s a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

It took me 20 years to memorize the deformaties of the room.

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

This type of injury is very painful. Especially when it hurts.

Canadian hockey coach

This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.

British sports commentator

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

British sports commentator

Let’s have some new cliches.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

His face is sagging with tension.

English sports commentator

They want people like your mother down there because they know they ain’t got no pre-conscrewed ideas.

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

It’s not only a race against the clock but a race against time itself.

I had to pinch myself seeing the grassy knoll and the book suppository building.

Canadian hockey player

We all know what it’s like to have a half-warmed fish within us.

(1844 – 1930) English dean at Oxford whose name is given to the accidental transposition of sounds of two or more words

Hector Torres, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses.

professional basketball player

And here’s Moses Kiptanui – the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I definitely want Brooklyn [his daughter] to be Christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.

professional football player

L.A.!? We're going to Long Island!?

(1971 – ) American actress

Sir, you have been caught fighting a liar in the quad, you will leave Oxford by the next town drain.

(1844 – 1930) English dean at Oxford whose name is given to the accidental transposition of sounds of two or more words

It’s difficult to play against a man… I mean Martina. She scares you with those big muscles.

Czech professional tennis player

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

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

As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?

(1964 – ) U.S. governor (Alaska) commentator & author