SPORTS QUOTES
"I'd give me right arm to be ambidextrous"
"Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles against the prevailing winds to rain on a tent" Dave Barry.
"My tongue is as dry as Gandhi's flip flop." PJ Dwyer after a recent Vets Race.
Cork Fan: " Did you know Sean Óg runs in iced water to keep his legs right?"
Kilkenny Fan: "That's nothing boy, sure Henry Shefflin can walk on it."
"I'm riding out for every stable bar Bethlehem at the moment" Jockey Dean McKeown.
"Talent without training is like a Ferrari without petrol - looks impressive, but won't get you far" GM
"You'd think if any team could put up a decent wall, it'd be China" Terry Venables
"Our team live hurling, eat hurling, dream hurling - Jaysus, if they could only play hurling" A disgruntled coach
"My tongue is as dry as Gandhi's flip flop." PJ Dwyer after a recent Vets Race.
Cork Fan: " Did you know Sean Óg runs in iced water to keep his legs right?"
Kilkenny Fan: "That's nothing boy, sure Henry Shefflin can walk on it."
"I'm riding out for every stable bar Bethlehem at the moment" Jockey Dean McKeown.
"Talent without training is like a Ferrari without petrol - looks impressive, but won't get you far" GM
"You'd think if any team could put up a decent wall, it'd be China" Terry Venables
"Our team live hurling, eat hurling, dream hurling - Jaysus, if they could only play hurling" A disgruntled coach
"I saw more meat on Bobby the butcher's apron" Seamie Cooper's comment on Kenyan Laban Rotich's legs
"There are two types of losers, the good losers, and the ones that can't act", Laurence J.Peter
"Time and Bill Doherty waits for no man", PJ Dwyer, who learned this the hard way.
"In a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration" Tegla Laroupe, Kenyan marathon champion.
"A gem cannot be polished without friction or an athlete honed without pain"
"Road racing is rock 'n roll, track is Carnegie Hall" Marti Liquori
"I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures" Oscar Wilde
"There are people who have only heads and no bodies, but some athletes have no heads only bodies" Sam Dee, Olympian
"Sport, like all life, is about taking risks."
Roger Bannister, first person to run a sub 4min mile in Oxford, May 6th 1954.
"Running is simple, but it sure ain't easy"
Mark Weber
"The reason a rabbit can outrun a fox is one is running for its dinner, the other for its life"
"Saddam Hussein wasn't under as much pressure"
PJ Irish after the Dungarvan Century HOmes Cross Country recently
"Cricket, a game the English invented to give themselves some idea of eternity"
Lord Mancroft
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