Shelley RudmanImage: newsimg.bbc.co.uk
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SPORTS QUOTES
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Silver medallist at the Winter Olympics 2006, Shelley Rudman, on her old and relatively heavy sled:
"Everyone else had a new sled for the Winter Olympics, but I didn't want to swap my old one. Sleds are like cars you get used to the feel of them."
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Cyclist Rob Hayles, a member of England's 2006 Commonwealth Games team, criticised the attitude of England's athletes, saying that their egos were so big they needed "a village of their own".
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Eric Cantona , comparing the experience of winning beach soccer world cup with winning actual soccer with Manchester United:
"Of course it is not as big as football but when you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault."
"Of course it is not as big as football but when you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault."
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Pele once explained how he wasn't too happy to get his nickname:
"Pele isn't my real name, my real name is Edson. A class-mate wanted to anger me with the name Pele, so I punched him and got suspended from school. I didn't want the name. Pele sounds like baby-talk in Portuguese."
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