"The judgment that I had before on Primo Nebiolo is one I'm sticking by today. Unfortunately, it's death that has removed Nebiolo from sport and not a movement from within the sporting world itself to defend certain basic rules such as respect, justice, impartiality and love. These are values which were amply forgotten by Primo Nebiolo." -

Livio Berruti, Italy's 200 metres Olympic champion at the 1960 Games, on hearing of the death of the president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation.

"Two for four: only England could produce a cricket score which sounds like an offer at your local Tesco." -

Jim White, writing in the Guardian, after England's batting collapse against South Africa in Johannesburg.

"It might have been a struggle for me to race next season at Jaguar knowing I had a championship to defend. We saw it with Damon Hill. He won the title in 1996 and went backwards - it can sometimes get to your brain." -

Eddie Irvine tries to convince himself it was a good thing that he didn't win the drivers' championship.