Subject: Misspokements (Page 45)

Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Are you any relation to your brother Marv?

basketball player

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

Czech professional tennis player

The ancient Egyptian kings, the fairy-ohs.

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

As I remember it, the bases were loaded.

professional baseball player

On one hand, I'm indecisive; but on the other, I'm not.

Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant – they’re quite clear –- that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the Ten Commandments.

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

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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

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

I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session.

Texas politician

The atheist religion don’t believe in the Bible.

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

The black cloud is coming from the direction the wind is blowing. Now the wind is coming from where the black cloud is!

English cricketer & commentator

Third base is certainly a reactionary position.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

That slow motion doesn't show how fast the ball was traveling.

Australian cricketer & commentator

It just as easily could have gone the other way.

professional baseball player & manager

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? … all you do is change the words.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I would have become a Hare Krishna but I didn’t want to become a vegetarian… and that is honestly the reason why – because I’m Italian, I love meatballs!

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

Today, Pittsburgh beat the Pirates, 6 to 6!

American sportscaster

When you lose your hands, you can’t play baseball.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Kingquering kongs

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

Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the biggest guys on the field.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer