Subject: Misspokements (Page 37)

Go and shake a tower.

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

Clint Eastwood is arriving… and here is Raquel Welch’s car… and here’s Alfred Hitchcar’s cock.

Misspokements

Even my players aren't players.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Winning is better than the next worse thing.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Don't take any wooden Indians.

Misspokements Mixed metaphors

The Queen's Park Oval -– as its name suggests, absolutely round!

cricket commentator
Misspokements Sports

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

English cricketer
Misspokements Sports

Stengel: Well, I have given that thought a lot of thinking lately and last night… well – I finally made up my mind.

Reporter: Which way?

Stengel: I made up my mind both ways.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Misspokements

(He) started out here with the Astros and before that he was with the Orioles.

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

He's the kind of player who usually comes along rarely and sometimes never.

(1927 – ) American football coach
Football Misspokements Sports

Nobody in football should be called a genius; a genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

American football player & commentator
Football Misspokements Sports

Alain Prost is in a commanding second position.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.

(1961 – ) 44th U.S. president
Government Health Misspokements

Homo Sapiens… is he an Arab?

(1923 – 2013) American actress
Misspokements TV/Movie Quotes

Innocent stand-byer

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

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.

professional baseball player & executive
Misspokements Sports Success

Rich Folkers is throwing up in the bullpen.

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

You’re gonna be stuffed in one of them intestinary cases.

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

It's just like they always say – too much too late.

English football player & manager
Misspokements

I believe what I said yesterday… I don’t know what I said, but I know what I think… and I assume it’s what I said.

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

I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Misspokements Sports