“Obviously to do something like that (leave) I wasn’t happy. I haven’t been happy at the Bulldogs for a while.” – SONNY BILL WILLIAMS.
“I rock up to training and Folkesy, Steve Folkes, someone, that to be honest, has never paid any interest in my personal life, he comes up to me and starts saying: `You’re not turning Muslim are you?’.” – SONNY BILL WILLIAMS on Bulldogs coach STEVE FOLKES’ reaction to his friendship with ANTHONY MUNDINE.
“I was in the room last year when he (Sonny Bill Williams) agreed, shook hands and signed a deal to stay with us (the Bulldogs) for five years. So regardless of what he says now, it’s all pissing in the wind really.” – Bulldogs coach STEVE FOLKES.
“I just want to see the game and the players looked after the way they should be because the crowds don’t turn up to watch (NRL chief) David Gallop play … they turn up to watch the players play.” – SONNY BILL WILLIAMS.
“I have no doubts that when I line up next week (at the Olympics) on the start line, I will look left and right and know the other girls aren’t all clean.” – Australian 800 metre runner TAMSYN LEWIS.
“I’ve had some meaningful innings in my life but with the whole situation and for the people back home, it’s bigger than just us, this victory. I’d have to say it’s my best innings.” – South African skipper GRAEME SMITH after making an unbeaten 154 to lead his side to its first series win in England since 1965.
“He is definitely not playing next week. If he plays I will buy you all a drink and that won’t be happening because I only get paid on win bonuses and I’ve got no money.” – Cowboys coach IAN MILLWARD on speculation star halfback JOHNATHAN THURSTON will make a return from a knee injury next weekend.
“There comes a time in your life when you have to get rid of scaly mates, let me tell you.” – Collingwood President EDDIE MCGUIRE criticises a “so-called friend” of midfielder HEATH SHAW for letting the player get behind the wheel while drunk.
“When you look at the elements of undisciplined behaviour, about drinking so close to a game, players drink driving and lying, all of those elements have caused us to take such a serious line because we don’t tolerate them, we won’t tolerate them and we need to send that message to the players.” – Magpies CEO GARY PERT.
“I have already got the icing and I have already got the base so a cherry would be just a nice bit on the top. It doesn’t really matter if I don’t have it, the cake is still nice anyway.” – LEISEL JONES would like an Olympic gold medal but it isn’t the be all and end all.
“I used it a few times at the race track getting home a horse.” – Broncos star JUSTIN HODGES on his gesture at NRL referee TONY ARCHER last weekend.
“We all know Licky Trickett.” – Australian deputy chef de mission Lynne Bates struggled to pronounce LIBBY LENTON’s name.
“The key is: attitudes are contagious; is yours worth catching?” – STEVE WAUGH in an address to the Olympic team.
“I say to him, ‘It’s just a race, people will just go back to watching Neighbours when it’s over.” – CRAIG MOTTRAM’s coach NIC BIDEAU on how he is preparing for the Olympics.
“It’s a frustrating process for any athlete who’s ever gone through it, to be at the top of the game, moving around, and all of a sudden, going to the bathroom is one of the hardest things to do.” – TIGER WOODS on his recovery from knee surgery.
“The smog actually helps us, the more the better for an old guy like me, I can see those little orange discs a lot better in the sky.” – Australian shooter RUSSELL MARK takes a lighter look at the pollution problem plaguing Beijing ahead of the Olympic Games.
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