"A lot of us laid to rest an awful lot of ghosts out there. I've been tempted to say this all year: we haven't gone away, you know." -
Manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy after Cork's All-Ireland hurling final victory over Kilkenny.
"Don't think they saw it in Fiji. Still in the dark ages there, they're still on the wireless. We'll send them a tape but they'll be delighted, like." -
Cork's Sean Og O hAlpin after the All-Ireland hurling final.
"What's he got, a big bull's-eye on his back? He doesn't deserve it. It's not golf." -
American golfer Payne Stewart, who died later in the year, on the crowd's treatment of Colin Montgomerie at the Ryder Cup.
"It was disgusting and Tom Lehman calls himself a man of God? His behaviour today was disgusting." -
Sam Torrance after Lehman, amongst others, danced a victory jig over the line of Jose Maria Olazabal's putt on the 17th green at the Ryder Cup after Justin Leonard had holed his putt.
"The team didn't just defeat the Europeans. . . they moidered da bums. They knew what was at stake and they reacted with all the emotional savagery of a Rockne-inspired football squad. This wasn't golf. This was tourist abuse." - Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan on events at Brookline.
"It seems an American team can't get through an international competition without looking like jackasses at some point." -
The San Francisco Examiner with a different take on the same event.
"I think it is criminal. . . where are they going, Brazil? I hope they all get bloody diarrhoea." -
Brian Clough on Manchester United's decision to withdraw from the FA Cup and play in the World Club Championship.
