"Other chairmen can come and have lunch with me at Harrods, where I can serve them stags' testicles from my Scottish estate. We all need big balls in this business."
- Fulham's Mohamed Al Fayed want to talk a load of bollocks with other football club owners.
"I burned the top of my left buttock on an electrical box in the cockpit. I'll let you stroke it later Sebastian, don't worry."
- After winning the Bahrain Grand Prix, Jenson Button offers Sebastian Vettel a rare treat.
"The team has always tried not to look at the relegation battle, we've always tried to look at getting points every game and thinking about going up and not down, and the win over Wigan has given us a real boost to do that."
- Kiwi soccer star Ryan Nelsen who last week scored his first Blackburn goal in his 111th league match. Very fitting really - Nelsen, 111 and all that.
"How can it be right for top players to be earning 15m-20m a year? It's crazy. These wages need to be capped. But I worry that it won't happen because the Premier League and the FA are run by donkeys who don't understand business, who are dazzled by money."
- More from Fulham chairman Mohamed Al Fayed, this time getting mad about the wages paid to top-flight footballers. This from the guy who owns Harrods.
"Pursuant to Judiciary Law 756 and this court's inherent remedial authority, please take notice that the purpose of this hearing, inter alia, is to punish defendant Societe Nautique de Geneve for contempt of court and such punishment may consist of a fine or imprisonment or both according to law."
- Prison! Finally one of the interminable "America's-Cup-back-in-court" stories gets interesting as the Supreme Court of the State of New York mentions the Big House to Ernesto Bertarelli and his pals. Cool!
"It is not the end of life, it is only cricket, only sport, so one team must lose, so what's the point? Because maybe I'll be not here next time or maybe I'll go there and there's a bomb and I'll die, so what's the point?"
- Pakistan cricket captain Younus Khan keeps it all in perspective.
<i>Supersport's They said it:</i> 'We all need big balls in this business'
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