Subject: Misspokements (Page 6)

If Roosevelt was alive, he'd turn over in his grave.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

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

(We) should be allowed to wear shorts; God almighty, (LPGA) women are allowed to wear ‘em, and we’ve got better legs than they do.

professional golfer

Craig Bellamy has literally been on fire.

Scottish football player & manager

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

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

I found a delivery in my flaw.

(1953 – 1998) baseball player

They’ve picked their heads up off the ground and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.

English former football player & manager

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Ah, isn’t that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.

British sports commentator

I didn’t say that I didn’t say it, I said that I didn’t say that I said it; I want to make that very clear.

(1907 – 1995) U.S. governor (Michigan)

You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Even Robinson Crusoe had company on Friday.

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

You could have blown me over with a feather.

Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.

professional baseball player

I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop – and there wasn’t a duty-free shop.

British football player

I can't understand the notoriety of people.

English football player & manager

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

In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas; ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.

(1961 – ) 44th U.S. president

My sport is about 90 percent strength and 40 per cent technique.

Wrist-wrestling champion

We have only one person to blame, and that’s each other.

professional hockey player