QUOTE OF THE DAY

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Harry Carpenter, legendary British TV commentator after the Oxford/Cambridge boat race 1977:

Ah! Isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.

 

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Brough Scott, British horse racing TV commentator:

And there's the unmistakable figure of Joe Mercer....... or is it Lester Piggott?

 

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Ian St John, Scottish footballer and commentator:

I wouldn't be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

 

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Barry Venison, English footballer:

The Croatians don't play well without the ball.

 

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Ken Loeffler, US basketball coach:

There are only two kinds of coach - those who have been fired and those who will be fired.

 

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Brian Clough:

Coaching is for kids. If a player can't trap a ball and pass it by the time he's in the team, he shouldn't be there in the first place. I told Roy McFarland to go and get his bloody hair cut - that's coaching at this level.

 

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Rachael Heyhoe-Flint, lady English cricketer:

Professional coaching is a man trying to get you to keep your legs together when other men have spent a lifetime trying to get them wide apart.

 

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Letter in the Guardian responding to the ungrammatical World Cup commentaries of Emlyn Hughes and Mike Channon 1986:

Conjugate the verb 'done great': I done great. He done great. We done great. They done great. The boy Lineker done great.

 

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Eric Hall, English football agent speaking about the Arsenal manager George Graham who was accused of accepting 'bungs' or bribes.

There are no bungs in football, only presents.

 

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Joan Rivers, US comedienne:

I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over he'd've put diamonds on the floor.

 

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David Lodge, British novelist:

I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex.

 

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Paul 'Bear' Bryant, American football coach:

There's no substitute for guts.

 

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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh:

There is a widely held and quite erroneously held belief that cricket is just another game.

 

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Sir Alec Douglas Home, British Conservative Prime Minister:

Oh God, if there be cricket in Heaven, let there also be rain.

 

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Mick Channon, English international footballer and racehorse trainer:

Kenny Dalglish has about as much personality as a tennis racquet.

 

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George S Kaufman, US playwright and humourist:

I'd rather be a poor winner than any kind of loser.

 

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Leo Durocher, US baseball manager:

Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.

 

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Al Oerter, legendary US discus thrower:

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at each other.

 

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Tommy Docherty, Scottish football manager:

After the match an official asked for two of my players to take a dope test. I offered him the referee.

 

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OOPS!! Jean-Marie Leblanc, French director of the Tour de France, quoted towards the end of the 1998 race which was badly disrupted by drugs scandals implicating several riders:

We think the riders deserve to arrive at the Paris finish on a high note.