"I said to my Boro manager, Bryan Robson, afterwards that if he paid £20 million for him immediately, he would be an absolute bargain." - Paul Merson on England's Michael Owen.

"I think the crowd probably enjoyed my emotional outbursts," - Venus Williams after bursting into tears during her Wimbledon defeat at the hands of Jana Novotna.

"We have a responsibility to respect and protect the privacy of our members," - Danny Lynch, PRO of the GAA.

"Last week a business psychologist asked Darren what his attitude was like, the reply he got was, `I'm a complete nightmare,"' - Andrew Chandler, Darren Clarke's manager,