"To suggest Tony Cascarino is guilty when in fact he was only defending himself is unjust."

- FAI chief executive Bernard O'Byrne on Cascarino's four-match ban for the after-match incident in Turkey.

"I do not think it necessary,"

Juan Antonio Samaranch (left) explaining, in his own way, why the major IOC reforms will not apply to the office of president.

"Samaranch told them (IAAF) that the Olympic Charter rules will be applied in Sydney and there will be no question of any derogation between now and the games,"

Pat Hickey, president of the Olympic Council of Ireland, making it loud and clear to everyone what gear he believes Irish athletes will wear in Sydney.

"I would like you to announce here that you will resign,"

Joe Barton, Texas Republican, to Samaranch, who has been accused of corruption.