What did you say in 2002?

BBC Sport Online presents Part II of 2002's best sporting quotes.

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Quotes of 2002 Pt I

I'm very supportive of Leyton Orient being given a wild card entry to the Champions League, but that will never happen.
Orient owner Barry Hearn's take on Celtic and Rangers wanting to join the Nationwide League.

People are very serious about this town. They don't want a big, furry, seven-foot monkey, they want somebody who is serious, who is best for the town.
Stuart Drummond, Hartlepool's former mascot H'Angus the Monkey, on being elected the town's mayor.

Keane made his point

I did mention that they wouldn't be too tired to play golf the next day, and fair play, they dragged themselves out!
A furious Roy Keane reveals his despair at the Republic of Ireland's World Cup training schedule.

I hope I don't come across as bitter and twisted, but that man (McCarthy) can rot in hell for all I care.
Course you don't, Roy.

I've taken so many pain-killing tablets by now that my body is rattling.
Colin Montgomerie struggles with a back injury.

We are very much like dinosaurs, us Australian coaches. There are only five of us left.
St Helens coach Ian Millward gets all Jurassic Park about the decreasing number of Australian coaches in the Super League.

We gave a thousand martyrs for Korea 50 years ago. Now a single Korean has killed 70million Turks.
Haluk Ulusoy, head of the Turkish football federation, after South Korean referee Kim Young-joo awarded Brazil a controversial late penalty in Turkey's 2-1 World Cup semi-final defeat.

Argentina lose? Fat chance

They will show that the English are absolutely terrified - they are quaking in their boots. Argentina is the only serious team of all those playing in the tournament.
Diego Maradona ahead of England's World Cup clash with Argentina. For the record, England won 1-0 and Argentina were knocked out in the first round.

It was very sweet to see Argentina go out. It was just a shame that we couldn't have knocked them out directly ourselves. If we see them on their coach on the way home, we will give them a wave!
Teddy Sheringham revels in Argentina's early exit from the World Cup.

We are not selling Rio Ferdinand to Manchester United.
Leeds chairman Pete Ridsdale rules out the possibility of selling Rio Ferdinand to Manchester United. He later made the switch in a £29.3m deal.

I'd rather buy a Bob the Builder CD for my two-year-old son.
Jason McAteer when asked if he would buy Roy Keane's autobiography.

I'd waited long enough. I ******* hit him hard. The ball was there (I think). Take that you ****. And don't ever stand over me again sneering about fake injuries.
The comments which cost Keane a five-game ban after the FA decided his shocking tackle on Alfie Haaland was premeditated.

Tendulkar - not to be sneezed at

Expectations are very high. Even when I sneeze people ask why I sneeze.
Sachin Tendulkar.

He can compete with anybody around and on the green. It's just getting there.
Bernhard Langer on the waning talents of golfing legend Seve Ballesteros.

Nothing was built in a day.
Tottenham manager Glenn Hoddle.

If I had a kebab shop, I wouldn't let them run it.
Millwall chairman Theo Paphitis after the Football League lose their case against ITV Digital.

I think I could fight Mickey Mouse and the place would be sold out.
Ricky Hatton on fighting in his home city of Manchester.

It is becoming like a game for the girls. If we're not careful the physical type of game the fans love to see will go out of the window. We might as well go and play netball.
Birmingham manager Steve Bruce.

Who needs Taribo?

There's more chance of me signing that bloke John West from the salmon people.
Martin O'Neill after Dunfermline chairman John Yorkston suggests Celtic were trying to hijack the Pars' bid to sign Nigerian international Taribo West.

My wife goes to the shops, she goes to buy fresh fruit and vegetables, every day. Football, I think, is like that. It's a great market-place, it's the best in the world, and we should be allowed to trade whenever we want, buy and sell - why not?
Bobby Robson objects to the transfer windows.

I don't want to say that one is more beautiful than the other. It's the same as having sex -- every time is beautiful.
Austria's Andreas Schifferer when asked how his super-G skiing bronze compared to his 1998 World Cup downhill title.

I'm sure sex wouldn't be as rewarding as winning the World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.
Ronaldo after helping Brazil to victory with his two goals in the final.

I sure am worth a major bank, I definitely am. I'm really exciting, I smile a lot, I win a lot and I am really sexy.
A modest Serena Williams on the prospects of new sponsorship deals after her Wimbledon title.

I think surely I'd be a struggling college student, fighting for the next Cup of Noodles. At least I can fight for the next filet mignon here.
Venus Williams on what she might have become without tennis.

Ripper!!!

It's a real ripper.
Australian Lleyton Hewitt on his first Wimbledon singles title.

When I started racing my father told me 'Cristiano, nobody has three balls but some people have two very good ones'.
CART champion and new F1 driver Cristiano Da Matta.

There are 12 guys here but we were led by the infamous Colin Montgomerie, who was magnificent all week. Bad heart, bad back, and he'll have a bad head tomorrow.
Ryder Cup captain Sam Torrance on his fellow Scot.