SuperSport finds the best sporting quotes of the week:
"I knew we weren't taking Tic Tacs."
Disgraced Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez on the hard core Smints scandal rocking baseball.
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"I must be consulted about whether I'm happy with the ground. I think I havea fair idea about grounds and what surfaces are fit to play on. In the future I want to have a say."
Sir Vivian Richards demands to be consulted about ground preparation at the ground that bears his name following last week's debacle. The second Test between England and the West Indies at the Master Blaster Stadium was abandoned after just 10 balls.
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"We decided very early on that if we had slept together we couldn't have skated together but there was never anyone else in the relationship while we were competing."
Jayne Torvill on her working relationship with Christopher Dean.
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"She used to say there were three people in our marriage."
Dean says his ex-wife, skater Isabelle Duchesnay, wasn't so comfortable with platonic friendship.
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"As far as London's citizens are concerned, I didn't like them at all. They are very dirty, scruffy. London is a very dirty city. The women there don't care about themselves and what they look like."
Yulia Arshavin, wife of Andrei, might not be too happy with hubby's move to Arsenal.
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"I'm a horse in a field. And there are guinea pigs all around me - it's a nightmare. I think death is just like a dream, except the dream lasts for eternity."
Arshavin on the state of modern soccer, whilst viewed from within an acid trip.
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"I think people, especially WAGS are becoming more conscious of spending money now - I'm not that bothered about pampering any more."
No more shopping sprees for Steven Gerrard's missus Alex Curran.
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"They still think we are at 25 years ago, you know, when the tour was full of, you know, a lot of dykes and unattractive females."
Golfer Anna Rawson bemoans the mainstream media's sexist attitudes towards golf and, er, "dykes and unattractive females".
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"He tortured a lot but there is no illiteracy in Chile."
... and the buses were on time under Mussolini. Phil Scolari has a good word for Chile's General Pinochet.
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"We're not into moral victories and all that rubbish."
... just really God-awful ones against minnows like Italy. England coach Martin Johnson fails to see the light side of their loss to Wales.
