Subject: Misspokements (Page 9)

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

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

They can say what they want, but playoff hockey is a whole other ballgame.

Today, Pittsburgh beat the Pirates, 6 to 6!

American sportscaster

Put it out of your mind; in no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

[Osama Bin Laden is] either alive and well or alive and not too well or not alive.

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

When those stalls open, the horses are literally going to explode.

British horse racing commentator

There won't be a dry house in the place.

English football player & announcer

The two of us all alone and, well, we was imminent together.

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

Well, um, you know, something’s neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so, I suppose, as Shakespeare said.

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

A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Tom.

basketball coach

There’s someone warming up in the bullpen, but he’s obscured by his number.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Venezuela! Great, that's the Italian city with the guys in the boats, right?

American boxing promoter

He opened his legs and showed us what he’s got.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I am B-U-Z-Y, busy!

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

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

That home run ties it up, 1-0.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

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

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

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

Wrist-wrestling champion

Is the bean dizzy?

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