FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: tvnz.co.nz

SPORTS QUOTES

That's what they offered to pay for me - I didn't ask for it." A bewildered Andrew Symonds after he fetched $1.47 million at the player auction for the Indian Premier League.
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"I was a little bit disappointed. I thought I might have been able to attract a little bit more than that." Australian captain Ricky Ponting , who went for $436,000.
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"I have never seen anything so riveting and so absorbing and so exciting even on the field. It's amazing drama." Former Indian Board president Inderjit Singh Bindra on the money on display at the IPL auction.
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"It's pretty hard to go and talk to the rest of the guys and tell them to get their heads down when I can't get any (runs) myself." Ricky Ponting on his flagging form in the tri-series.
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"I just felt electric and just felt like my muscles were firing." Ramon Sullivan on how he felt before breaking the men's 50m freestyle world record.
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"There was no conflict or animosity at all." "Lay Down" Sally Robbins , on the reception she got from her fellow rowers at the Olympic selection trials in Sydney.
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"I think we must have been about 14 or 15 and we used to say `Dad, what's that guy doing? He's running like a fairy with his ponytail sticking up, so it was quiet funny." Newcastle Jets star striker Joel Griffiths poking fun at how his coach Gary Van Egmond used to look in his playing days.
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"I advised him that if he made another run that he might not run so freely the next time." Van Egmond returns serve, referring to a time he and Griffiths actually played against each other 10 years ago.
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"There's no stop-start, the essence of what rugby is, any more." Springboks winger Bryan Habana on the experimental laws in Super 14.
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"I'm pretty sure he'll get there even if he has to kayak there." Acting Waratahs coach Todd Louden on whether he thinks Ewen McKenzie will make it across the ditch for the Chiefs clash, after having a kidney stone removed on Thursday.
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"I think I'm a better bunker player than that." Greg Norman after taking three to get out a bunker he designed himself during a PGA tournament in Mexico.
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"If you go out to a bar and try to chase women they never come - you go out on a golf course and try to chase birdies and they never come." Sydney golfer Ewan Porter's mantra for the Moonah Classic.