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“As an umpire, you needed hair on your chest to survive him. Every ball he bowled, in his opinion, was a wicket. And he wasn’t far wrong.”
- Retiring umpire Rudi Koertzen on dealing with Shane Warne.
“Sadly, they played very dirty. This ugly, vulgar, hard, hermetic, hardly eyecatching, hardly football style. If with this they got satisfaction, fine, but they lost.”
- Dutch great Johan Cruyff on his countrymen’s performance in the 2010 World Cup final.
“I’ll be honest, I ain’t got no mates. I’ve only got one close mate who I met at school. Mum and Dad told me there’s no good in having heaps of mates in life. The backstabbing ... I’ve seen it a lot with my brothers. They just bring you down.”
- Wallaby winger Digby Ioane on the secrets of his sporting success.
“Back in our heyday, we didn’t give anything away. So I don’t want anyone to say, ‘Hey, let’s let the old man have one.’ That’s not what this event is about.”
- Tour de France veteran Lance Armstrong on the prospect of one last stage win.
“Well, it depends on what your definition of ‘fraud’ is. I mean it. Look, if he didn’t win the Tour, someone else who was doped would’ve won the Tour ... In every single one of those Tours.”
- Floyd Landis on whether Armstrong will leave a fraudulent legacy.
“The phone would ring in the middle of the night and you knew it was either Mr Steinbrenner or a death in the family. After a while, you started to root for a death in the family.”
- Harvey Greene, a former Yankees staff er, on the legendary and recently-deceased Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.
“My stomach is full of fire. I’m going to have my revenge.”
- Andy Schleck after losing the yellow jersey to Alberto Contador when the Spaniard attacked after the chain slipped off Schleck’s bike
“When you see your photo on the front page of the paper under the headline ‘Rats face jail’ you think, ‘What’s my mum going to think when she sees this?’ This is not the person who I am.”
- Former Melbourne Storm CEO Matt Hanson after it was discovered the level of rorting exceeded the NRL’s initial findings.
“I won’t change my style. If I change my style, I will change Peter de Villiers, and then I would have to tell God that he made a mistake when he made me.”
- Springboks coach Peter de Villiers after his team lost its first three Tri Nations matches.
“Yeah, of course I could pull the fight right now. But you know what? I don’t care. Somebody get him a hamburger – he’s going to need some energy.”
- Danny Green fumes after Paul Briggs shows up to the weigh-in for their IBO title fight three kilos overweight.
“He dogged it. My chihuahua, Rocky, has got bigger balls than him.”
- Green a er an innocuous le jab dropped Briggs, ending the fight in 29 seconds.
“Paul Briggs’ life is in tatters. He has no home and no family. Some wombat asked me afterwards did I feel sorry for Danny Green? Why would I feel sorry for him? He knew exactly what he was getting into. He bags Mundine for fighting stiff s, but that’s all he does. And then these clowns say, ‘But he beat Roy Jones.’ Everyone in boxing knew Jones was fly-blown.”
- Legendary trainer Johnny Lewis on the bout.
“Ever since he hooked up with Hyder, Green’s changed. He just talks and talks like a broken record. If he wants a real fight, then I’ll fight and teach him a lesson in boxing. His trainer even had the nerve to say he hits the pads harder than me. That’s bullcrap, he can get stuff ed. If I put one on his head it will come off .”
- Australian heavyweight Kali Meehan (below) calls Green out.
“It’s death by a thousand cuts. It’s not one set of circumstances, it’s not two, it’s multiple.”
- Western Bulldogs CEO Campbell Rose on the “breaches of trust” that forced the club to sack Jason Akermanis.
“It’s not easy for anyone. I had to go home to my son – who wears your number on his back – and explain to him why Aker’s not playing with us anymore.”
- Rose to Akermanis on Nine’s The Footy Show.
“There’s a bunch of players who break trust every day in footy clubs. I hope you’ve got the same rules for everyone, because you’re not going to have a team at the end of the year.”
- Akermanis to Rose on his supposed breaches of trust.
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