Sport: Quotes Of The week

Like running with a hair-dryer down your throat.

Ray Mouncey, ultra-distance runner, on racing through Death Valley.

I just tried to picture them as chocolate milk shakes.

Alcoholic John Daly on the Irish Open's Guinness-shaped hole markers.

The last time I retired I was 99 per cent certain it was for good. This time it's 100 per cent.

Boris Becker, after losing to Pat Rafter.

It was like an alien abduction out there. Someone invaded his body and turned him into the greatest volleyer in the universe.

Jim Courier, after defeat to Tim Henman.