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“We’re Newcastle’s
most hated sons.”
– Daniel Abraham on himself and Adam Woolnough, who combined
in a Newcastle training drill to end Joey Johns’ career.
“The thing that stands out to me isn’t the
great victories or the grand finals. It’s ’05 where
we lost 13 games in a row and we’d turn up here every second
weekend and play in front of a packed stadium.”
– Andrew Johns to the 25,524 who turned up to farewell him
at EnergyAustralia Stadium.
“I’d probably fly to West Palm Beach to play
golf.”
– Hank Aaron on what he’ll do if (when?) Barry Bonds
breaks his all-time home-run record.
“They know how to kick. They know how to find targets.
We don’t.”
– Mick Malthouse, after a flogging by West Coast, clearly
not predicting a big season from the ’Pies.
“It’s all schoolgirl s***. Smack ’em
in the head and tell them to get over it.”
– QRU chairman Peter Lewis on infighting between John Connolly,
Ewen McKenzie and Eddie Jones.
“He’s human. He just doesn’t act like
one.”
– We’re presuming Stuart Appleby is talking about
Tiger Woods’ golf skills.
“Too s***-frightened of you media slamming us for
putting numbers behind the ball.”
– Hawthorn coach Alistair Clarkson on why he didn’t
tell his players to shut up shop in the fourth quarter despite
a healthy lead over Melbourne in round 3.
“I don’t have his number.”
– Canberra forward Neville Costigan when asked if he’d
called the Roosters’ Amos Roberts to apologise for head-butting
him after a game. Roberts called the head-butt a “dog act.”
“He can certainly count his chickens lucky.”
– Brett Kimmorley on Chris Walker keeping his Titans contract
despite yet another alcohol fuelled incident.
“I’m able to walk away with all my faculties
intact … all my physical faculties at least. Not sure about
my mental ones.”
– Western Force front-rower Brendan Cannon gets all teary
on retirement.
“What’s his name? … McClennan? What’s
his first name? I think he’s got to understand the game’s
bigger than one person.”
– Ricky Stuart throws a sharp jab at Kiwi coach Brian McClennan
after he failed to turn up at the World Cup launch on the eve
of the ANZAC Test.
“I don’t know Ricky Stuart and I’m
not intending to get to know him.”
– McClennan’s reply.
“It’s not the end of the season. We can’t
hang our hat yet.”
– Roosters captain Craig Fitzgibbon after his
team recorded their first win of the season in round 7.
“Nobody can stop him. Probably the only way to
do it is to kill him.”
– Man U defender Patrice Evra on team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo.
“It’s not possible penalties against Manchester
United, and it is not possible penalties in favour of Chelsea.”
– Nothing lost in translation here: Chelsea manager José
Mourinho redefines the art of whingeing …
… and the art of epochal caveats: “If somebody
punishes me because I tell the truth, it’s the end of democracy;
we go back to the old times.”
“We were good friends until we started beating
them [Chelsea].”
– Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez baits his Chelsea counterpart.
“… a very smart and fair decision …”
– Dockers coach Chris Connolly’s assessment of the
Selwood vs Headland tribunal ruling – if you can count doing
nothing as a “ruling.”
“It’s a massive transition to rugby and the
game is boring anyway.”
– Willie Mason, always sure fodder for a quotes page.
“It’s football – it happens.”
– Ex-Hammer Frank Lampard after a brick was thrown through
the window of the Chelsea team bus at West Ham’s home ground,
Upton Park. Guess his understanding of the game must be different
to ours …
“You don’t have to have champagne and caviar
every day. There’s nothing wrong with a cheese sandwich.”
– Former England winger Jason Robinson stoic in the face
of the grinding hardships of retirement.
“Did I entertain you?”
– Brian Lara added some Gladiator embellishment to his farewell
speech at Kensington Oval. The Bajan crowd responded in kind.
“I don’t believe in it and it is something
that has disturbed me over the years.”
– Retired and safely ensconced in England, Justin Langer
decides to make a stand over the Aussies’ sledging.
“There must be two Justin Langers in the world,
I think. I don’t know what has happened there. But I know
the little fella was never too far away from it if something was
going on.”
– Ricky Ponting’s bemused reply.
“Prats of the Caribbean.”
– Daily Mirror headline after England’s nine-wicket
loss to the Proteas ended their World Cup campaign.
“We moved up a step from domestic bilateral cricket
here into the area of a major world sporting event.”
– The business-speak of this comment from ICC chief executive
Malcolm Speed encompasses much that was wrong with the Caribbean
World Cup.
“The bulk of responsibility for the almost pulseless
fiasco is quite properly being laid at the door of the International
Cricket Council, a body as notorious for organisational ineptitude
as it is for scuttling away from anything resembling an ethical
principle. There isn’t a shovel big enough to pile on the
opprobrium deserved by such a crew.”
– We think Sunday Times journalist Hugh McIlvanney is mildly
irked at the ICC’s running of the tournament.
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