Subject: Misspokements (Page 50)

We’re not used to weather in June in this country.

professional football player, coach & executive

This is only a little mispensation.

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

That’s the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

That woman is liable to come at you like Doberman’s Pincher.

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

Isn’t there any other part of the matzah you can eat?

(1926 – 1962) actress, sex symbol

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

I’m telling you that Porsche was literally right up my arse in the fast lane of the motorway.

It has made the richest prize in sport the richest prize in sport.

American boxer

Our offense is like the Pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

American basketball player

I read part of it all the way through.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

His feet were a long way away from his body!

Indian cricketer

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

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

To watch 24 hours a day through them high-powered spectaculars.

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

His throw went absolutely nowhere near where it was going.

Australian cricketer & commentator

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

The man is United through and through – cut him and he bleeds red.

Scottish football player & broadcaster

I made a wrong mistake.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Chappell just stood on his feet and smashed it to the boundary.

cricket commentator

Niloleum

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

You can sum up this sport in two words: You never know.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

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

professional tennis player