Subject: Misspokements (Page 42)

(Bruce) Benedict may not be hurt as much as he really is.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

E before O except before E-I-E-I-O.

(1971 – ) American actress

U.S. history – that’s part of your whole American heresy.

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

Tonight I’m going to listen with my ears.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

That’s cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Mike Caldwell, the Padres’ right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Some weeks Nick likes to use Fanny, other weeks he prefers to do it by himself.

sports commentator

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

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I think the family was from Hungaria.

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

They’ve taken the foot off Johnny Grubb… uh, they’ve taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

All I’m asking for is what I want.

professional baseball player

I'm flying by the edge of my seat.

Most people my age are dead at the present time.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

The scene is dull; tell him to put more life into his dying.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Larry Lintz steals second standing up… he slid, but he didn’t have to.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

My potential speaks for itself.

professional tennis player

That’s the trouble with directors; always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Television has raised writing to a new low.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Of course the Soviet Union was bound to fall! It's on the edge of the map!

(1971 – ) American actress