Subject: Misspokements (Page 52)

I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid.

professional football player & broadcaster

They want people like your mother down there because they know they ain’t got no pre-conscrewed ideas.

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

Armstrong is about to join a list which includes only himself.

sports commentator

The final score after eight innings is Giants 3, Padres 2.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Everybody knows that I have been pumping Martin Leslie for a couple of seasons now.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

I am not part of the problem, I am a Republican.

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

Tempo… now there's a big word.

English football player & commentator

My wife made me a millionaire. Before she divorced me, I had three million.

professional hockey player

Jacques Lafitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Lafitte.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

We drove a stake in the stand.

(He’s) is wearing his hair differently this year, short and with curls like Randy Jones wears… I think you call it a Frisbee.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

If I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Reporter: To what do you attribute last night’s loss?

Dale Neal: To the fact that they scored more points than we did.

I want to be Robin to Bush’s Batman.

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

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

You have really solidified the Mets' centerfield problem.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

(1903 – 1992) American bandleader & TV host

The hell with the toothpicks; they say them things bust your emammal anyhow.

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

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

(1921 – ) former First Lady of the United States & actress

The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.

professional baseball player