Friday, January 4, 2013

Sports Quotes of the year 2012

FOOTBALL

"The referee, he ate too much for Christmas. He was not in good form."
Roberto Mancini fumes at referee Kevin Friend after Manchester City lost at Sunderland
Dec 27, 2012

"The only person they have not spoken to is Barack Obama because he is busy."
Sir Alex Ferguson feels his pitchside rant at referee Mike Dean has been blown out of proportion.
Dec 28, 2012

"Barcelona want him? Maybe we’ll do a straight swap with Messi."
QPR boss Harry Redknapp's negotiating skills will have to be at their sharpest if he is to get Lionel Messi in for Adel Taarabt.
Dec 21, 2012

"If we got that number of penalty kicks there would be an enquiry in the House of Commons."
Ahead of the derby, king of the mind games Sir Alex Ferguson puts the spotlight on the amount of penalties Manchester City have been awarded.
Dec 7, 2012


GOLF

"The best present I ever received was space Legos."
Tiger Woods reveals he is actually a man of very simple tastes.

"Sorry, phone's going. No phones at Augusta... Let's pretend no-one heard anything."
Rory McIlroy breaks the rules ahead of The Masters.

“I listened to my DAB radio and my Abba CD. Flying would have been sensible, but this is ‘me’ time.”
Colin Montgomerie explains why he drove 1,500 miles to fetch a putter from his home in Scotland.


TENNIS

"I like cooking, gardening, reading, decorating the house, putting up the Christmas tree and running."
Former world number one Kim Clijsters on her retirement.

"I always felt tennis was easier for me playing as world number one than actually getting there."
Swiss legend Roger Federer after reaching a combined total of 300 weeks as number one in October.


BOXING

"If a boxer doesn't finish a bout with bruised hands then he probably hasn't thrown any punches."
Amir Khan's father explains why his son was a little sore after his win over Carlos Molina, but denied talk of broken bones.

"I'm too fast, too sexy and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine."
David Haye winds up Vitali Klitschko. There is nothing Ukrainians hate more than a superfluous “the” in front of the name of their country.


ATHLETICS

“When baby kicks, I will breathe in and breathe out and try to calm myself down and talk to baby: ‘Behave yourself and help mummy to shoot!’”
Malaysia’s pregnant rifle shooter Ny Suryani Mohamed Taibi on her unique team effort.

"It's what I came here to do. I'm now a legend, I'm the greatest athlete to live."
Jamaica's Usain Bolt after becoming the first man to retain the 100m and 200m titles.


CRICKET

“He’s going to teach me cricket. Because I don’t understand what’s going on with that.”
Barack Obama finds a use for David Cameron.


SWIMMING

"I think everyone pees in the pool. It's kind of a normal thing to do with swimmers. Chlorine kills it so it's not bad."
Olympic great Michael Phelps admit to a different sort of gold run - his habit of peeing in the pool.

"We never questioned Michael Phelps when he bagged eight gold medals in Beijing."
Jiang Zhixue, the head of anti-doping at China's General Administration of Sport, on suspicions over teenageChinese swimmer Ye Shiwen's explosive Olpmpics.

2 comments:

tehr said...

Sir Alex dah tangguh sekali lagi untuk bersara

MU juga masih perlukan beliau

de engineur said...

Jadi Pengurus sepanjang hayat agaknya dia tu