Sport: Quotes of the week

Age is not why I lost. Martina Navratilova, 36, after semi-final with Jana Novotna.

As they say, 'No guts, no glory', so I went for it. Novotna.

It was a good performance but now we have got to do it all over again. You don't kill off the All Blacks by one display. Ian McGeechan, Lions coach, after victory over the All Blacks.

Martin McCague will go down in Test cricket history as the rat who joined the sinking ship. Daily Telegraph Mirror, in Australia, on England's Perth-raised recruit.

I owe Australia nothing. McCague.

I'm sickened. It's a lynching. Bernard Tapie, Marseille president, on the French bribery scandal.

Your mission is part of the confrontation between Iraq and the Forces of Evil embodied by the US and its allies. Al-Qadissiya newspaper, Baghdad, on Iraq's World Cup qualification campaign.