SPORTS QUOTES
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"I'm an emotional person, things can happen on the pitch very quickly but I didn't mean to disrespect the referee." Ashley Cole ( see photo)apologises to Alan Hutton and referee Mike Riley after his horror tackle on the Tottenham Hotspur defender.
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"I wouldn't put it down to a lack of desire, concentration or anything like that. I would probably put it down to there being a lot of good bowling against us, but we believe we're better players than that and we should be going out there and scoring hundreds." Paul Collingwood is sure the failure of any England batsman to score a first innings Test century since last June isn't anything to do with them.
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"Look at Brian's results in recent times - they are just phenomenal." England wonderkid Danny Cipriani either has a very short memory or a unique take on the word phenomenal after Brian Ashton's side lost 15-9 to Scotland.
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"Goalscoring is an art. It's about being in the right place at the right time and he's got that knack." Harry Redknapp hails Jermain Defoe as a real Picasso of the penalty box.
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"He's a footballer." David Pleat pauses before delivering his expert analysis of PSV's Ibrahim Afellay in ITV's coverage of Spurs' Uefa Cup defeat to the Eredivisie champions.
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"It takes 1,000 per cent commitment. For two years I've not had the same hunger." Sweden's heptathlon star Carolina Kluft makes Alan Shearer's infamous "110 per cent" claim look like something a slacker might say.
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"It just goes to show how hard we have worked since the World Cup, with the effort in training. It is probably the fact that everyone is scared senseless of Shaun Edwards." Winger Shane Williams hints that assistant manager Edwards' fear tactics may have been behind Wales' Six Nations grand slam win.
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