SuperSport's They Said It: 'The three key words that sum up the Crusaders'

"Honesty, hard work and integrity. The three key words that sum up the Crusaders."
Red and black hooker Jason Macdonald is big on team spirit, but bad at maths - that's four words, mate.

"I'm remodelling a house and I don't know about anyone else but $125,000 is a lot of money to me. That's like my whole furniture bill, some stairs, rugs - that can go a long way."
Thrifty DIY hobbyist Serena Williams on the amount she would have been fined had she not turned up at the Madrid Open this week. She showed up all right - thus avoiding the fine - then she walked out after losing the first set of her first match against Francesca Schiavone. Injury. Apparently.

"We already have so many rules: we can't drink on these days, we can't go to these places, now we can't have group sex. About the only thing we can do these days is go to club functions, and just hang around other players."
An anonymous NRL player rages against the anti-group sex vibe that's going on in top-level league.

"Ferrari all over again? I'm very experienced with that and if it happens I won't follow any team orders any more. I'm making it clear now so that everybody knows."
Brawn formula one driver Rubens Barrichello on the suggestion that the team had deliberately scuppered his chances to favour teammate Jenson Button - Barrichello took three refuelling stops and Button two. A similar thing happened when he was at Ferrari where the team bosses favoured some bloke called Schumacher.

"The lad had heard from his family at about one in the morning what had happened, and his brothers I believe have identified the body. But he sat around the hotel lobby with his case packed until 7am because he didn't want to wake me. I'm amazed with him. But we organised for him to be driven back to London so he could get a flight home."
Spurs manager Harry Redknapp on the sad case of Wilson Palacios, whose brother was murdered back home in Honduras.

"Twenty20 has come on board and it's made a huge impact on the world. It's brilliant and games have been sold out. It's taken the place by storm. So I look at Test cricket differently now. I've enjoyed every bit of it but it's not for me long-term."
Windies skipper Chris Gayle has had enough of white flannels.