Subject: Misspokements (Page 39)

Spencer’s running across field calling out, ‘Come inside me, come inside me.’

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

I told him, ‘Son, what is it with you? … Is it ignorance or apathy?’

He said, ‘Coach, I don’t know and I don’t care.’

American basketball coach & executive

This is only a little mispensation.

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

Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

English football player & announcer

Jenson Button is in the top ten… in eleventh position.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

In the Moscow Olympics Lasse Viren came in fifth and ran a champion’s race.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

If Roosevelt was alive, he'd turn over in his grave.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

But obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies.

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

Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

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

Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.

professional baseball player

Getting cut in the face is a pain in the butt.

Canadian hockey player

He's ranked number three in Britain, number four in the world. You can't get any higher!

English darts player

He's got a great future ahead; he's missed so much of it.

English football player & manager

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

Here’s a guy who when he runs, he moves faster.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

You could be like Anita O’Brien, hustlin’ fruits.

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

And later on, it’s the Syracuse Orangemen against the Indiana Hoosiers from Hawaii.

Play some Picasso.

professional basketball player