SuperSport finds the best sporting quotes of the week:
'Pele lost his virginity to a man.'
The great Diego Maradona does his bit to play down rumours that him and Pele, touted as the best footballer of all time, don't get along.
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"I've done it in five cars. But my current car, an Audi R8, is too confined. The first car I ever enjoyed in such a way was my mother's Opel Astra - but sadly the seats were not leather. One can wipe leather."
St Pauli defender Ralph Gunesch prefers to hump in cars. Never - we repeat never - buy a used car from this man. Or leather pants.
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"I don't think we have a huge chance in 2018, it will probably go to Europe, but you can't tell. We have a good chance for 2022. I'll be 99 years old [in 2022], so it's sort of an obligation to stay around."
Nice guy Henry Kissinger is the poster boy for the USA's bid to host a World Cup. Which would be fine if not for the fact that he was previously the poster boy for the CIA's clandestine wars and assassination plots in roughly half the nations attending the cup.
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"A baboon who does not know what he is doing."
Cheeky Watson on Springbok coach Peter de Villiers. (Instructions for sparking race row: place firework on ground, make simian-related comment, stand well back.)
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"It was probably for budgetary and strategic reasons. It's the crisis."
French pole vaulting champion Romain Mesnil, who ran naked with his, er, pole through the streets of Paris in a bid to attract a new sponsor.
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"You can live your life on a level playing field if you want. But if you get involved in high-level sport you are going to get a kick in the nuts occasionally."
England rugby manager Martin Johnson talks bollocks.
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"Fifa's not a rich organisation. But we're comfortable."
Fifa boss Sepp Blatter gets coy about the soccer slush fund. So, just how comfortable is Fifa? Well they're running with a cosy profit of $321 million at the moment. Which begs the questions: what would Moneybags Blatter consider to be a rich organisation? Opec? The Vatican? The IMF?
<i>SuperSport's They Said It</i>: 'Pele lost his virginity to a man'
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