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SPORTS QUOTES
Excerpts of Australia's favorite sports quotes from survey by Australian News staff
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I was really enjoying my ride and just thinking how beautiful it was here and the next minute I was picking gravel out of my head."
-- Aussie equestrian rider Megan Jones.
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"You'll never make a footballer while ever your arse points to the ground."
-- England great Jack Charlton to a young Craig Johnston.
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"Big balls count."
-- Craig Mottram when asked how he can run so fast.
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"As you slide down the banister of life, you are bound to pick up a splinter or two in your arse."
-- Queensland horse trainer Vic Rail.
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"Put a Mars Bar on a good length, that should do it."
-- Ian Healy telling Shane Warne how to get Arjuna Ranatunga out of his crease.
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"Mate, if you turn the bat over you'll find instructions on the back."
-- Merv Hughes to Robin Smith.
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"I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it."
-- Golf's John Daly.
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"Oh right, one of you blokes piss off and the rest scatter."
-- NSW cricket captain Keith Miller after noticing he had 12 players heading out to field.
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"Injuries above the neck don't count."
-- Legendary Australian football coach John Kennedy.
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"Sent off, carried off, but never backed off."
-- Australian rugby union player David Dunworth.
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"Now, David, are you going to get out now or am I going to have to bowl around the wicket and kill you?"
-- Some helpful advice from Malcolm Marshall to David Boon.
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"We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass." --- Soccer manager Brian Clough.
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"The only time an Australian walks is when his car runs out of petrol." South African cricketer Barry Richards.
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"I'm just a normal Aussie guy who likes a smoke and a drink. I wish they'd had the final between 2am and 4am. I might have won,"
-- Sydney Olympic silver medallist long jumper Jai Taurima.
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"Well, we knocked the bastard off."
-- Edmund Hillary on returning to Everest base camp.
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"A silver medal gets you as many free beers as a gold medal does."
-- Aussie shooter Russell Mark.
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"Pressure? Pressure is a Messerschmidt up your arse. Playing cricket is not."
-- Miller again.
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"I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in."
-- Accidental gold medallist skater Steven Bradbury, who broke his neck and required 111 stitches in separate incidents on the ice.
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