Subject: Misspokements (Page 49)

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

(1971 – ) American actress

You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Andujar Cedeno to lead it off; he swings… and he is hit by a pitch… and it is hit over the wall and out of here for a home run.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I would have given my right arm to be a pianist.

British football commentator

You’d play me chess, about which I don’t even know how to deal.

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

Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin… unless this is the action, which it is.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

It just as easily could have gone the other way.

professional baseball player & manager

They seem cold out there, they’re rubbing each other and he’s only come in his shorts.

television journalist & newscaster

The Mexicans… these tiny little men from South America.

British sports commentator

Always be on the lookout for conspicuousness.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

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

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

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

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

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

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

Nothing means nothing, but it isn’t really nothing because nothing is something that isn’t.

professional basketball player

Her husband was infidelicate with another woman.

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

I don’t pay any attention to him… I don’t even ignore him.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I have nothing to say, and I’ll only say it once.

Hockey coach

It shows ‘us vs. them,’ and I’m on the ‘us’ side.

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

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

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

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

English football player & announcer