Een beetje veel en grotendeels engels, maar ze zijn legendarisch
The bowler's Holding; the batsman's Willey.
Brian Johnston, BBC cricket commentator.
Mark Wright would get injured on A Question Of Sport!
Tommy Docherty, 1992.
It was a wonderful day for all Arabs, all Muslims, all over the world.
Saudi Arabia midfielder Fuad Amin on his country's victory at USA '94 against ... Morocco.
That's a world-class spit.
Eamon Dunphy on the Frank Rijkaard-Rudi Voller incident in Italia '90.
Thank God we're playing them at football and not ice hockey.
France goalkeeper Joel Bats on learning of the 1986 World Cup first-round draw with the USSR, Canada and Hungary.
If we had managed an early goal, the result might have been different.
George Graham after Arsenal had drawn 0-0 with Sheffield Wednesday in 1992.
He left the same way he arrived - fired with enthusiasm.
Joe Lovejoy of The Sunday Times on the sacking of Graham Taylor as England manager.
I used to go missing a lot - Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss Germany ...
George Best.
I spent a lot of my money on wine, women and song. The rest I just squandered.
George Best.
This is supposed to make us world champions? World champions of what? Masturbation?
Brazil defender Luiz Pereira commentating on his team's imposed seclusion from their wives and girlfriends during the 1974 World Cup in West Germany.
Hampden Park is the only stadium which looks the same in black and white as it does in colour.
David Lacey.
Before the match, I told my lads that they would be playing against 11 other guys ready to fight for each other, not with each other.
Spartak Moscow coach Oleg Romanstev after Blackburn's Graeme Le Saux and David Batty had attacked each other during the Champions League match between the two teams.
I once said that Gazza's IQ was less than his shirt number, and he asked me, 'What's an IQ?'
George Best.
In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite.
David Coleman at the 1976 Olympics.
He's the greatest thing to come out of Spain since a Picasso painting that made sense.
Dan Jenkins on Seve Ballesteros.
Welsh rugby union chiefs gave their full backing to a judge after he jailed a violent player who stamped on an opponent's head for six months.
Daily Post.
Grandmother or tails, sir.
Rugby referee asking Peter Phillips, son of Princess Anne, for his coin-toss preference before the start of a match involving his school.
Remember that rugby is a team game. All 14 of you make sure that you pass the ball to Jonah Lomu.
fax to New Zealand rugby team before they played England in the 1995 World Cup semi-final.
White Hart Lane is a great place. The only thing wrong is, the seats face the pitch.
Les Dawson.
I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points.
Stacey King after Michael Jordan had scored a record 69 points in a play-off for the Chicago Bulls.
The game is too long, the season is too long and the players are too long.
US pundit Jack Rolph on basketball.
"They [Rosenborg] have won 66 games, and they've scored in all of them."
Brian Moore, ITV
"I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat."
Ron Atkinson - 1979
A soccer game takes 90 minutes and at the end the germans win.
Gerry Linneker
Dick Advocaat na een nederlaag van PSV:
Commentator: "Wat gaan jullie nu doen Dick?"
Advocaat: "We gaan eerst de polonaise de bus in en in Eindhoven verder feesten".
Johan Cruijff in de rust van Nederland-Zuid-Korea WK 1998:
"Hun verdediging is net geitenkaas".
Wim Jansen (??) na een gescoorde goal:
"Ik moest toch die kant op"
Mart Smeets vraagt tijdens een Tour-etappe aan Steven Rooks of de renners een enorme fysieke inspanning leveren, waarop Steven antwoordt:
"Ja, maar ook lichamelijk"
If we're not better than Barcelona, I'm not a black man.
Paul Ince of Manchester United, hours before Barcelona defeated his side 4-0 in the Nou camp stadium.
As regards my plans for a new signing - well, I've got a few hot irons in the fire, and I'm keeping them close to my chest.
John Bond, then manager of Manchester City.
He should go back to his news agency!
John Giles on German defender Stefan Reuter, who had just given away a penalty against the CIS in Euro '92.
Until later, because life doesn't end here.
Andres Escobar closing his last-ever weekly newspaper column, which was published on the day of his funeral.
The talk in America is all about Disney's summer smash ... But Jurgen Klinsmann is the Lion King of Germany. He's a predator, and his domain is the eighteen-yard box.
John Motson during Germany v Belgium, USA '94.
For those of you listening in black and white, Hungary are playing in red shirts, white shorts and green socks, and attacking the goal to our left.
David Coleman commentating on Hungary v Argentina in the 1978 World Cup - for BBC Radio 4.
I've always said there's a place for the press, but they haven't dug it yet.
Tommy Docherty.
I must tell you I do not like for me or my players to be called dogs.
United States coach Bora Milutinovic responding to a question on how it felt to be the underdogs against Colombia in USA '94.
Ach, not the Dutch again. You are all ass-holes anyway and Adolf (Hitler) should have gotten rid of you.
Lothar Matthaus after being cornered by a Dutch TV camera crew at Bayern Munich's training ground in 1994.
England have not won a game for three months. The fact that we have not played one is irrelevant. Graham Taylor should hang, and so should his successor.
Item in Viz, September 1993.
He has a great football brain, but the message obviously hasn't reached his feet yet.
Bill Shankly.
Can I ask you something, Mr. Best? Where did it all go wrong?
Unidentified hotel porter on seeing a drunken George Best cavorting in a hotel room with the then Miss World, on a bed covered in £10 notes.
I expect them to come out - oh dear, I'd better not say fighting, had I?
Tottenham assistant coach Peter Shreeves on European Cup-Winners Cup opponents Hajduk Split of Croatia.
In his prime, Joe Bugner had the physique of a Greek statue, but he had fewer moves.
Hugh McIlvanney.
Als ze alleen al aan een blessure denken liggen ze al op de massagetafel.
Björn Jongste over zijn medespelers van nivo-sparta-1
Dick Advocaat bij B&vD jaren geleden
Advocaat:"We hadden de overwinning nooit meer uit handen mogen geven"
VanDorp:"Nee das het zelfde als je boven ligt met je vrouw en je bent bijna op je hoogtepunt en je gaat naar beneden om een pannenkoek te eten
Advocaat:"Een pannenkoek kan ook erg lekker zijn"
HUGO WALKER!!!!!!! :
Fräser jongen, doe dat nou niet!
Gaat ie denk ik,....nee!
In feite technisch goed voetbal
Lacatus...Lacatus.....LACAAAATUUUUUUUUUS!!!
Scheidsrechter Reygwart, is dat nou wel nodig?
Trouwens ook een goede redding he, van die keeper
Veld is vochtig, bal schiet door,...ja natuurlijk, goal!
En dan houden we er mee op hier in Waalwijk
En die gaat scoren denk ik...nee!!
Gaat zo'n bal erin is het een goal
Die jongen bevalt me wel
Overm...Seedorf
Nou, nou, nou, scheidsrechter Luinge toch!
Had ik persoonlijk heel anders gedaan
Balletje breed lijkt mij de beste oplossing....maar dit is natuurlijk ook niet slecht
Rommedahl....wil nog wel eens kansen missen als hij zo hard loopt
Schitterend doelpunt, en mag 'ie juichen?!
Dat doelpunt hadden u en ik nog gemaakt
Nou, dat moeten we dan in de herhaling nog maar eens gaan bekijken
Gaan we kijken of ie ook een linker heeft. Heeft ieeeeee!
Keepertje, keepertje, wat doe je nu?
Leuk werk hoor, van die 30-jarige kopsterke spits..Eric Viscaal, daar hebt u 'em
Even nadenken nu voor Fritz Korbach
Voigt..Kijken of'ie in paniek raakt..dat doet'ie!
En dan gaan wij nu aan de thee hier in Enschede
Ik zal maar eens schieten jongen
Ja hoor, 't zal Patrick van Diemen niet zijn die scoort
Rommedahl kan het afmaken met een stiftje...maar dat gebeurt niet
Dan is het afgelopen, volgens mij te vroeg
Gele kaart denk ik....óf....ÓF...rood. Ik was er al bang voor
Het kan natuurlijk niet altijd kaviaar zijn
Schot Overweg!...over en weg
Wippertjeuuuh...nee, passje binnendoor, zeer geraffineerd
Del Pierro komt ongetwijfeld in beeld.... ja daar hebt u 'em
Daar gaan we nog een of twee of drie of als het aan mij ligt vier keer naar kijken
Ikpeba.. doe's iets leuks.. en dat doet'ie!
Tja, Frankrijk-Paraguay, en dat zult u met mee eens zijn, is natuurlijk heel iets anders dan Frankrijk-Spanje
Barthez.... met de fles........ en dat rijmt
Ja, en dan doet dingetje ook weer mee. En met dingetje bedoel ik natuurlijk Joonas Kolkka
Tja, Patrick Lodewijks is natuurlijk niet Edwin van der Sar
Rommedahl, die loopt de honderd meter in een secondetje of tien....
Drie keer raden wie die kans miste, Nicos Machlas
Scheids, dat past toch niet in het beeld van de wedstrijd
Op de paal denk ik..... Ja
Jean Marie Pfaff, tijdens een live-televisie intervieuw, onmiddellijk na zijn debuut-wedstrijd voor Bayern München:
Und dan ging ik in die hoeke und habe das bal niet guht gesehen aber ik kende die speler und wiste das er met das rechterbien in die linker onderhoek schietsen ging.
Ich bien altijd al ein penalytstopfer gewesen
und ook hier in München zal iek mijne penalties stopfen. Misschien was die speler ook was veel zu moe, um goed zu kunnen schietsen. Und nu wille iek ook de beker gewonnen heeft. Hoopfe iek.
Moet ik Cruff nog citeren? Ongeveer alles wat hij zegt is lachwekkend:
"De Ballon gaat zo diep te water tot-ie-barst"
"Als je een speler niet dekt, kan hij ook niet uit de dekking lopen"
I told one player, 'Son, I can't understand it with you. Is it ignorange or is it apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'
Basketball coach Frank Layden.
Just the way it is spelled.
Georgian wrestler Meriyam Tsalkalamanidze on how to pronounce his name.
THE GAME ISN'T OVER TILL MILLI VANILLI SING.
Banner at a Green Bay Packers game, 1990.
"One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him."
Jeffrey Bernard.
"Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country."
Ian Rush.
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
Mario Andretti.
"The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important."
Bobby Robson.
"The margin is very marginal"
Bobby Robson.
"It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box."
Bobby Charlton
"I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again."
Kevin Keegan
"She comes from a tennis playing family. Her father's a dentist."
BBC 2
"Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious."
Alan Winter.
"This boxer doing what's expected of him, bleeding from the nose."
Harry Carpenter
"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won."
Muhammad Ali.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalised for too many players on the field
Jim Boulton
"Bruce Sutter has been around for awhile and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is."
Ron Fairley, Giants broadcaster
"We've been working on the basics because, basically, we've been having trouble with the basics."
Bob Ojeda, baseball pitcher
"We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads."
Vlade Divac, NBA basketball player
"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
Joe Theisman, quarterback and sports analyst
"Cricket ?, I thought it was an English food!"
Alex Metreveli 1967
"Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris."
Oscar Wilde.
"Do you know where you are?" the doctor asked.
"You better believe I know where I am," Willie replied. "I'm in Madison Square Garden, getting beat up!"
Light-heavyweight boxer Willie Pastrano.
"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."
1982 Chuck Nevitt , North Carolina State basketball player,
explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice
"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."
1996 Lou Duva, Veteran boxing trainer, on the spartan training
regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota
"It's basically the same, just darker."
1991 Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, on racing Saturday nights as
opposed to Sunday afternoons
"I told him, 'Son, what is it with you. Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'"
1991 Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player
"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."
Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King
"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."
Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece
"If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy."
Bobby Knight
"The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief'"
James Naismith, the man credited with inventing basketball
"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my fucking clothes."
Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker
"You guys line up alphabetically by height." and "You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle."
Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach
"Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."
Duffy Daugherty
"Most football teams are temperamental.That's 90% temper and 10% mental."
Doug Plank
"Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki"
Nigel Starmer-Smith
"That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record."
David Coleman
"Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen."
David Coleman
"We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind."
David Coleman
"An easy kick for George Fairburn now but, as everybody knows, no kicks are easy."
David Doyle-Davidson
"He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62."
David Coleman
"The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second."
Murray Walker
"... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds!"
Murray Walker
"There are four different cars filling the first four places."
Murray Walker
"Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn't be surprised to see her at the front."
Ron Pickering
Grappige kwoot van Franks Snoeks toen een speler keihard de bal in zijn ballen kreeg (carambool):
"nou die kan vannacht net zo goed op het logeerbed".
Belgie - Rusland WK 1986.
Rick de Saedeleer na mislukt schot over het doel van een Rus : " Daar gaat weer een Sojoes 16, ik hoop niet dat ze deze jongen nu naar Siberië sturen."
Frank Snoeks jaren geleden bij het schansspringen....
bij de aanloop...daar gaat dieendie (naam weet ik niet meer), in het dagelijkse leven timmer man...dat was mijn Opa ook maar die kon niet schansspringen.