Subject: Misspokements (Page 41)

(Willie) McCovey swings and misses, and it’s fouled back.

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

We shouldn’t have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Government Law Lawyers Misspokements

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

British sports commentator
Misspokements Sports

I have made good judgements in the past; I have made good judgements in the future.

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

What ya do in the privates of your own room is your own privates.

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

And now, coming into the game is the five-ton junior from Canton, Ohio.

Misspokements Sports

Why did you do that? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Sam!

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Misspokements

The Republic-of-China – back in the Olympic Games for the first time.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

It’s a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too.

professional tennis player
Misspokements Sports

That was a maximization of a minimization of hits.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

He has got perfect control over the ball right up to the minute he lets it go.

Australian rules football player
Misspokements Sports

As a runner Daley Thompson is excellent, as a jumper he is excellent, and as a thrower he is an excellent runner and jumper.

British journalist, author, commentator & coach
Misspokements Sports

I’m really happy for Coach Cooper and the guys who’ve been around here for six or seven years, especially our seniors.

college football player
Football Misspokements Sports

My wife made me a millionaire. Before she divorced me, I had three million.

professional hockey player
Divorce Hockey Marriage Misspokements Sports

Templeton is as hot as you can be and still walk!

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

Women Liberteens

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

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.

Clemson football recruit
Football Misspokements Sports

Sure I've got one; it's a perfect twenty-twenty.

American football player
Intelligence Misspokements

Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.

baseball player
Communication Misspokements Reading/Writing

I love sports; whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president
Entertainment Misspokements Television

All of his saves have come during relief appearances.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports