QUOTE OF THE DAY

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Rodney Marsh, English footballer said in 1997:

The only place for women in football is making the tea at half-time.

Must admit that I'm not a fan of the womens' game but it has come on in leaps and bounds in recent years.

 

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Nick Hancock, British TV presenter on footballer Alan Shearer:

A man so dull he once made the papers for having a one-in-the-bed romp.

 

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Old proverb:

He that's always shooting must sometimes hit.

 

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William S. Gilbert, British playwright and lyricist:

Deer hunting would be a fine sport, if only the deer had guns.

 

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English football manager Ron Atkinson on a player's ball skills:

He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it: you can see it all over their faces.

 

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Gary Lineker, English footballer said in 1995 although originally attributed to Leicester City manager Gordon Milne:

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've just got to swallow it.

 

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Of Lord Byron, British poet:

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery. And how to scale the walls of a fortress - or a nunnery.

 

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Heywood Braun, US humourist:

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

 

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Neil Simon, US playwright:

Sport is the only entertainment where no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Unless the current Swans team play Liverpool at Anfield every week!

 

[The Blobster]

The blobster 2024

Women are like clouds ,
Sometimes they fuck off and you can have a nice day !

 

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Anonymous golf commentator:

His swing resembles someone trying to kill a snake in a telephone box.

 

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Norman de Mesquita, English cricket commentator:

So that's 57 runs needed by Hampshire in 11 overs and it doesn't need a calculator to tell us that the run rate required is 5.1818 recurring.

 

[Yankee_Jack]

But can he hit a googly

 

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Anonymous:

Any golfer can be devout on a rainy Sunday.

 

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Queen Elizabeth II:

If it were not for my Archbishop of Canterbury I should be off in my plane to Longchamp every Sunday.

 

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Duane Thomas, Dallas Cowboys American footballer:

If the Super Bowl is the 'Ultimate Game', why are they playing it again next year?

 

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Major Ronald Ferguson, father of the Duchess of York:

Swearing at the polo club? It's a load of bollocks!

 

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Greg Phillips in the Portsmouth News:

It was the fastest-ever swim over that distance on American soil.
Where???

 

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Mike English, Irish rugby player on his attemps to tackle opponent Phil Horrocks-Taylor in a 1950 Five Nations match.

Every time I went to tackle him, Horrocks went one way, Taylor went the other, and all I got was the bloody hyphen.

 

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Anonymous reference to Scottish football manager, Ally MacLeod in 1978:

I think Ally MacLeod believes that tactics are a new kind of peppermint.