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SPORTS QUOTES
Quotes from the year 2004
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SAILING
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"When you give every goddam bit of yourself to try and break something when the odds are against you and you don't do it by that much, it is infuriating."
- Ellen MacArthur after failing by 75 minutes to break the solo transatlantic record.
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"He's got no morals whatsoever. This is by far the worst case of bad sportsmanship I've ever experienced."
- Ben Ainslie on Guillaume Florent, the French Finn sailor, whose controversial protest in Athens could have scuppered Ainslie's second successive Olympic gold medal.
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"When I see him I'll probably say nothing and just wander past, hopefully with the gold medal. I might dangle it in front of him."
- Ainslie again, when asked what he would do if he did go on to win the medal.
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"It was exciting at the start, but when I went round the last buoy and people started going, it suddenly seemed like a bloody long time."
- Alex Thomson faces reality on the first evening of the Vendée Globe single-handed round-the-world race.
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SOCCER
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"If a bus runs over me tomorrow and that is all we ever achieve then it will be worth it for that."
- Mark Palios, FA chief executive at the time, on the positive effects of Rio Ferdinand's eight-month ban for missing a drugs test.
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"If you go out for a beer, all of a sudden it's multiplied by 12. If you're seen walking down the road with a girl you're having an affair."
- the former Manchester United forward Norman Whiteside on the troubles awaiting Wayne Rooney, who had just switched to Old Trafford.
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"We came off life support on Friday and are now in recuperation."
- Gerald Krasner, the new chairman of Leeds United, after his consortium completed its takeover of the debt-ridden club in March.
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"We would get more for Robinson if we sold him in the Leeds Weekly News."- John Boocock, chairman of the Leeds United Supporters' Trust, after Paul Robinson, the England goalkeeper, moved to Tottenham Hotspur for £1.5million.
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"Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid."- José Mourinho, then the FC Porto coach, in March.
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"You give a player everything he needs to have a good professional life and good behaviour. It is his fault."
- Mourinho, now the Chelsea manager, blames Adrian Mutu for his dismissal after failing a drugs test for cocaine.
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"Just because the bloke got caught having a couple of lines with some Page 3 bird does not mean he has got major problems."
- Ed Giddins, the former England cricketer who was once banned for testing positive for cocaine, on Mutu.
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"I would sell my wife into slavery before I would sell my United shares."- Pete Hargreaves, a Manchester United supporter, on Malcolm Glazer's takeover attempt.
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"One of my players would have to be hit by an axe to get a penalty at the moment."- Sir Alex Ferguson after Manchester United did not win a spot-kick in the derby against City at Old Trafford.
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"I've felt like the fire brigade on Guy Fawkes Night for the past few weeks."
- David Dein, the Arsenal vice-chairman, on the long-running saga of whether Patrick Vieira would go to Real Madrid.
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"It's important for the lads not to see a member of the squad walking around with a face like a smacked bum."
- Joe Cole on keeping his chin up despite not playing a minute for England at Euro 2004.
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"I am sure some people think that I have not got the brains to be that clever."- David Beckham on his deliberate booking for fouling Ben Thatcher, of Wales, in a World Cup qualifying match.
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"Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go and get themselves checked out by about 15 psychiatrists."
- Martin O'Neill, the Celtic manager.
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"The lowest moment was when we were 5-0 down at West Ham last week and the realisation sank in that half my team were playing for the opposition."
- Stuart Murdoch, the Wimbledon manager, after the club's creditors accepted a takeover by Pete Winkelman's consortium.
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"It's years since I've seen snow."
- Socrates, the former Brazil captain, reflects on his 13-minute debut for Garforth Town in the Northern Counties East League.
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"They would hang me from the rafters at Molineux if someone who used to manage West Brom were given the job."
- Rick Hayward, the chairman of Wolverhampton Wanderers, on the news that Gary Megson, the former Albion manager, had applied for the job at Wolves.
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"I just took it on the chin."
- Bill Leslie waxes philosophical after the miss from a yard by Kanu, the West Bromwich Albion forward, cost his side a draw against Middlesbrough and Leslie a £38,000 accumulator bet.
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"His future is definitely in front of him."- Andy Gray, the Sky Sports expert, on the England prospects of Chris Kirkland, the Liverpool goalkeeper.
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"He dropped out at 1pm when we discovered he had tweaked a hamstring walking upstairs at home. We're now asking him to move to a bungalow."- Steve Coppell, the Reading manager, on Glen Little's late withdrawal from the match against Brighton and Hove Albion. Reading still won 2-1.
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