"It's disappointing that a photographer has broken the unwritten rule but you can't do much about it."
All Blacks forward coach Steve Hansen on the photograph of Graham Henry's top-secret playbook. The thing about unwritten rules, Steve - as Andy Schleck might point out - is that no one has actuallywritten them down ...
"When he's good, he's charming. On Christmas Day and Boxing Day, he helped us serve guests and tidy up. I just feared it was too good to be true. I'm genuinely fond of him and so were the guests but then he snaps. Alex suffers from great highs and great lows. He has sung love songs outside my window at three o'clock in the morning, woken me up and asked me if I wanted a sleeping tablet."
Hotelier Dave Moorhouse remembers having Alex "Hurricane" Higgins as a guest at the Pymgate Lodge.
"Talking about white sprinters: I find this absurd. This story is too much, I don't like it. I had a good race, I broke the record, but there is not much more to say. I did what I had to do, that's it."
French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre who this month became the first white man to go 100 metres in less than 10 seconds.
"They called me to put out a fire, and we put it out. I've given everything. Everything."
The great Diego Maradona on his rejection by Argentina's soccer bosses.
"In Amsterdam I met this drug dealer, right? And he sees that I like getting high, and he wants to be my buddy, right? This guy goes and gets me a big rock of cocaine. So pretty soon I got a party going on. I got everything. I got these rugby players. I got these naked girls ... Everything's going on in the room. Plus I also had this girl with me that I picked up in Romania. But then (the drug dealer) saw how much of a mess I was. He came in and kicked everybody out of my room! All the nude people, all the people having sex. He said, 'I feel so bad I ever gave him that stuff'."
Big bad Mike Tyson
"It's almost been nine months with this vegan stuff. It brings some great energy."
Tyson, again. He's on a new culinary vibe post-Holyfield's ear.
