Subject: Misspokements (Page 52)

His strength is his strength, his strength is.

English football player & manager

And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I told him no. N, O, W — no!

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

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

He's got a cut on his left eye… it's just below his eyebrow.

British sports commentator

I’ve got ten pairs of training shoes… one for every day of the week.

(1966 – ) English dance-pop singer, actress & former model

We are not going to be any three-clouds-and-a-yard-of-dust team.

football coach

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

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

I’ve never seen a game like this; every game this year has been like this.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

It is now possible they can get the impossible score they first thought possible.

British cricket journalist

If I wasn’t talking, I wouldn’t know what to say.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer

Enos Cabell started here with the Astros… and before that he was with the Orioles.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

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

He's usually a good puller – but he couldn't get it up that time.

Australian cricketer & commentator

He was killed by a blushing crow.

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

Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Let’s stop the startwatch.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I don’t care if it doesn’t make a nickel; I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I don’t like to look back in retrospect.

professional football player

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest; if you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

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