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"I trained hard up until the game but it was the end of the season and afterwards I got kidnapped. It was a very enjoyable week - from what I can remember!"
Wales and Wasps coach Shaun Edwards describes a lost week of celebration when he played for Ireland in rugby league at the end of his playing days.
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"I would have been doing a bit of 'porridge' myself!"
Roy Keane admits he would have gone to prison had Sepp Blatter's demand for some tackles to be made a criminal offence come into force while he was a player.
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"I'm assessed as a manager, players are assessed, referees should be assessed properly by the right people. That performance today should not be accepted by our game."
Sir Alex Ferguson blasts referee Martin Atkinson and his boss Keith Hackett after Manchester United's FA Cup defeat to Portsmouth.
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"They don't give penalties, don't give yellows, don't give reds - it's difficult to play like that."
Cristiano Ronaldo claimed he is "scared" at not being given enough protection and revealed he may change his style of play.
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"When Rio Ferdinand went in goal, I wasn't too worried. I saw him play in goal when he was a kid and I knew he wasn't very good."
Harry Redknapp knew it was Portsmouth's day in the FA Cup when United defender Rio went between the sticks.
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"I put my house, its contents, my entire wardrobe, my under garments, my socks and my shoes on the fact that he would score, and how he didn't I have no idea."
Inimitable Leicester boss Ian Holloway on a missed chance for Iain Hume in the goalless draw with Bristol City.
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"Maybe now, with Manchester United and Chelsea out of the Cup, our odds to win it will come down from 200-1."
Barnsley manager Simon Davey believes his side can go all the way after knocking Chelsea out of the FA Cup.
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"We've knocked out Liverpool at Anfield and now the cup holders, who've got one of the best squads in the world and they've come here and we've turned them over."
Barnsley captain Brian Howard struggles to take in the enormity of his side's achievement.
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"I said to them 'well, there's a tenner in it for you but there are conditions. We have to win 15-0. When they said to me that was fine, I replied 'that's all very well, but you have to score 14 in the first half. You see. whenever the players ask me about a bonus, I just tell them I don't understand, that I'm a Yorkshireman."
Barnsley chairman Gordon Shepherd reveals his unique way of handing out bonuses.
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"We haven't won it, we have not got to the final and we have got to get prepared. Why would we be drinking champagne?"
Cardiff boss Dave Jones plays down his side's shock quarter-final win at Middlesbrough, even though it handed them their first semi-final berth since they won the competition in 1927
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"We were worried about going home tonight on the plane because of the high winds. I don't think that will have any bearing because the plane will be rocking anyway."
More from Jones.
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"I've always believed at this time of the season you get to see people like oranges - you squeeze them and some of them tend to capitulate."
Watford manager Adrian Boothroyd gets fruity.
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"I'll fight them anywhere. I'll go to Russia or Las Vegas to fight them if necessary. As long as there's a ring and the referee can count to 10, I'll be all right."
David Haye calls out world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and co after beating Enzo Maccarinelli to confirm his dominance of the cruiserweight division.
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"I have told Mike he can be the biggest, most physical, imposing scrum-half in world rugby. He thinks he already is - and he told me he is the best looking as well!"
Wales coach Warren Gatland prescribes a case of vanity in Mike Phillips.
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"I've looked at the game again and, to be honest, if you weren't Scottish or English then you would be pretty bored watching it."
Scotland's Chris Paterson takes an honest view of the fare on show in last week's Calcutta Cup clash. Scotland won 15-9.
."There was plenty of spice last year, a bit of a lovers' tiff between Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso within the same team."
Mark Webber takes a light-hearted view on last year's row between the McLaren team-mates.
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"I can't remember his name and I don't think he wants to remember mine because I was yelling at him for four holes, telling him to move, stop moving when the others were playing. He dropped the umbrella on the first hole and then I found out he had spikes on so I had to kick him off the greens."
Golfer Tony Carolan explains why he sacked his local caddie after just four holes of the Ballantine's Championship.
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