Subject: Misspokements (Page 9)

That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

They stayed away in droves.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we’re in.

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, ‘You never know.’

professional baseball player

Moses Kiptanui, the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago…

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

We had a lovely meal. Lovely. We had a big steak with all the tarnishings.

Spencer’s running across field calling out, ‘Come inside me, come inside me.’

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

Modeling is such a great job! Maybe I could be one of the ones in store windows.

(1971 – ) American actress

She is going to join the gym to lose some weights.

I am blind like the mighty oak.

(1971 – ) American actress

That was a maximization of a minimization of hits.

professional baseball player

That’s what I call the ultimate laxative.

Canadian Prime Minister of Sports

Those trees seem to grow every year…

British professional golfer & commentator

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

We got to practice a little bit. I want these guys to be bouncing around like a pogo stick on Viagra.

football coach

That letter’s too old! What I mean to say – it’s subspired.

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

Mike Caldwell, the Padres’ right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Kingquering kongs

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