Sport: Quotes Of the week

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. What you sow you reap. You have to look at things that happened in your life and ask why. It comes around

Glenn Hoddle, England coach

Thank God Mother Teresa, Leonard Cheshire and Florence Nightingale didn't take the Hoddle view of disabled people

Lord Alf Morris, former minister for the disabled

In a previous incarnation I must have been a failed football coach

David Blunkett, education minister, who is blind

I do as I'm told. They give me the pick and shovel and I dig where they say to dig

Howard Wilkinson on the immediate future

I could have tried to save it all by revealing my mum works at a school for the disabled

Glenn Hoddle keeps it in the family

The players are being

brainwashed

Gary Player on the way golfers are over-coached

I've had my eyes gouged, the back of my head punched, my ribs elbowed and various parts of my anatomy squeezed. When any side starts those antics you know you've got them beaten

Ulster prop Rab Irwin reflects on Colomiers in the Heineken Cup final