Sport: Quotes of the week
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Your support makes all the difference.It was a big mistake. Boxers fight hurt all the time. This wasn't a four-rounder from Liverpool, this was the heavyweight champion. Dan Duva, promoter, on Lennox Lewis's second-round stoppage against Oliver McCall.
Lewis has got two chances. No chance and slim. Slim is out of town. Don King on the possibility of a re-match.
I call him James Van Gogh because of his visits to the canvas. Clifton Mitchell, boxer, describing his opponent James Oyebola in the forthcoming British heavyweight title bout.
When I looked in my mirror I actually saw this distorted image: I was so ugly and so fat. I just wanted to kill myself, really. Jennifer Capriati on the agonies of a teenager's tennis burn-out.
He's barmy. He must have thought we were playing Wigan. Ron Atkinson, Aston Villa manager on Phil King's clowning antics before taking the winning penalty against in the Uefa Cup against Internazionale.
If it did anything to improve my performance, I'm a monkey. Colin Mackenzie, javelin thrower, on failing a drug test after taking a painkiller.
Scorecard, get your scorecard here] Programme seller during St Albans City's 11-1 FA Cup demolition of Hillingdon.
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