“This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.”

his is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.”
(Ted Walsh – Horse-Racing Commentator)

“Moses Kiptanui – the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.”
(David Coleman)

“We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.”
Murray Walker)

“He’s pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!”
(RTE’s George Hamilton on Spain manager Luis Suarez’s substitution of Butragueno during their world cup qualifier with Ireland in Seville, 1992)

“The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players in there to balance things up and give the team some brains and some common sense.”
(Crystal Palace chairman Ron Noades, speaking in 1991).

On the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living in Italy: “It was like being in a foreign country.”
(Ian Rush)

“I’d like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona.”
(Mark Draper – Aston Villa)

“Bill Frindal has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator.”
(John Arlott)

“Hodge scored for Forest after 22 seconds – totally against the run of play.”
(Peter Lorenzo)

“We actually got the winner three minutes from the end but then they equalised.”
(Ian McNail)

“The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.”
(Murray Walker)

“I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.”
(Greg Norman)

“Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious.”
(Alan Minter)

“He dribbles a lot and the opposition don’t like it – you can see it all over their faces.”
(Ron Atkinson)

“It took a lot of bottle for Tony [Adams] to own up.”
(Ian Wright – commenting on his teammate’s alcoholism)

“Here we are in the Holy Land of Israel – a Mecca for tourists.”
(David Vine)

“Julian Dicks is everywhere. It’s like they’ve got 11 Dicks on the field.”
(Metro Radio)

Dennis Pennis: “Have you ever thought of writing your autobiography?”
Chris Eubank: “On what?”

“Strangely, in slow-motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.”
(David Acfield)

“One of the reasons Arnie [Arnold Palmer] is playing so well is that, before each tee-shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them.”
(US TV commentator)

“If you can’t stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen.”
(Terry Venables)

“It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.”
(Jack Charlton)