Quotes of the week
"English players and British players are not as skilful on the ball as foreign players and we need to understand why."
Gerry Sutcliffe
Monday 12th May 10:47
Featured in Give youth a chance
"He could not come off because we had used all our substitutes."
Grant on Drogba
Monday 12th May 09:20
Featured in Blues wait on Drogba
"We know we are in a good position."
Fulham on being 'fairest' team not qualified for Europe
Monday 12th May 08:18
Featured in Fulham cautious on Euro bonus
"How would I be without this? Please tell me."
Ferguson on United job
Monday 12th May 08:00
Featured in Fergie happy to carry on
"They're a very well oiled outfit, really. You can't underestimate them."
Rob Key
Monday 12th May 07:45
Featured in Key - Kiwis are a threat
"I think I've not just improved this season; I try to improve every year. I'm better now than five years ago."
Cristiano Ronaldo
Monday 12th May 07:40
Featured in Ronaldo targets 50 goals
"He has done a great job."
Murphy on Hodgson
Monday 12th May 07:38
Featured in Murphy hails Hodgson
"I thought, all the hard work, this is what it's worth and it made me feel good for everybody that matters to me."
Sergio Garcia
Monday 12th May 07:08
Featured in Garcia savours overdue win
"We have been depleted and I think the players have done great."
Curbishley
Sunday 11th May 18:59
Featured in Curbs hails Hammers effort
"Gareth has two years of his contact left to run."
O'Neill on Barry
Sunday 11th May 18:48
Featured in Villa expecting Barry stay
"If we win the European Cup it has to be the best team. We are bouncing into the final now."
Sir Alex Ferguson
Sunday 11th May 17:52
Featured in Fergie - Prove you're the best
"Giggs still has this burning desire like his manager and I certainly think there's another couple of seasons in Ryan yet."
Charlie Nicholas
Sunday 11th May 17:21
Featured in A fitting finale
"The full-back's job is to catch the ball. That's what he gets paid to do."
Jon Sharp
Sunday 11th May 16:32
Featured in Sharp rues Giants errors
"There is no way I am retiring after that. I will go for the European title and come back that way."
Junior Witter
Sunday 11th May 13:23
Featured in Witter: I will bounce back
"If I hadn't been in the squad that could have been the end of me."
Matthew Hoggard
Sunday 11th May 12:32
Featured in Hoggard glad to be back
"The FA is beginning to show the worst signs of a bureaucracy, if it wasn't so serious it would be laughable."
Patrick Barclay on the state of the national team
Sunday 11th May 11:42
Featured in 'FA farce'
Owen is a player who Fergie always thought 'I wonder what he would be like in a Manchester United side'. The circumstances are right, clearly with the trouble at Newcastle Michael won't sign a contract extension and take a pay cut, why should he?
Sunday 11th May 11:03
Featured in Goin' for Owen
"Junior Witter will be back."
Junior Witter
Saturday 10th May 23:34
Featured in Witter loses title on points
"What will be will be."
Michael Vaughan
Saturday 10th May 22:44
Featured in Vaughan under pressure
"There were times when we put the ball down when we shouldn't and we had a try against us which we are pretty filthy about."
Mike Ruddock
Saturday 10th May 22:08
Featured in Ruddock happy with win
"My job would have been in question if we hadn't made Europe."
Marcelo Loffreda
Saturday 10th May 21:02
Featured in Loffreda - Win saved my job
"There is an eight-day turnaround so the players have a chance to recharge and get this out of their system."
Steve Meehan
Saturday 10th May 19:03
Featured in Injuries mount for Bath
"There are no regrets."
Richard Hill
Saturday 10th May 18:14
Featured in Hill - No regrets
"Robert Karlsson is a guy who does not like surprises. He wants to make a schedule and that schedule is then set in stone and it does not change."
Simon Holmes
Saturday 10th May 17:39
Featured in The Zen Swede
"Even when the guy brought the script out to me to read, he had to sit there while I read it!"
Ray Winstone
Saturday 10th May 15:06
Featured in Sworn to secrecy
"It's been harder than winning the championship with Werder Bremen."
Stalteri on battle against relegation
Saturday 10th May 13:23
Featured in Stalteri - Drop harder than title
"I've put in a lot of hard work to get to this point after ankle surgery last year and I know I can overcome what isn't a significant injury."
Saturday 10th May 12:18
Featured in No Test return for Freddie
"It was a bit hectic to be fair. Kevin Phillips was doing some break dancing on the floor! It was very funny."
Ishmael Miller
Saturday 10th May 12:14
Featured in Baggies party in style
"When everybody describes the Premier League as greedy it drives us all nuts. Let me tell you why."
Richard Scudamore
Saturday 10th May 11:49
Featured in Scudamore - PL is not greedy
"It might seem strange to be preparing for another season with just one year on your contract."
Moyes
Saturday 10th May 11:16
Featured in Moyes - No contract offer
"I'm very happy here. The club has grown every day since my arrival and I want to be a part of this adventure."
Clint Greenshields
Saturday 10th May 10:58
Featured in Greenshields staying put
"If it did it would be an amazing fairytale. "
Savage on Blues relegation
Saturday 10th May 10:14
Featured in Sav wants Blues down
"I hit the ball well and putted well, did everything right. It was probably the best start to any tournament I've played in my career."
Bernhard Langer
Saturday 10th May 10:05
Featured in Langer lets experience tell
"I cannot see myself ever leaving Liverpool ."
Gerrard
Saturday 10th May 09:25
Featured in Reds - Gerrard bid is fantasy
"I've had an enquiry from a big four team in England."
Seydou Keita
Saturday 10th May 09:19
Featured in Keita open to Prem switch
"My body is a lot stronger than it was and last year I didn't really have too many injuries so I'm not really worried about that now."
Chris Tremlett
Saturday 10th May 08:58
Featured in Tremlett eyes England call
"This is my life."
Redknapp on Portsmouth
Friday 9th May 17:01
Featured in Harry laughs off exit talk
"Angelina Jolie just wanted to meet me. They were dead quiet and it was if they were dead nervous!"
Ricky Hatton
Friday 9th May 16:31
Featured in A Jolie bad show
"I wish I could still be playing here (in Rome) but worse things have happened. So I hope I can bounce back strong in Hamburg."
Roger Federer
Friday 9th May 15:35
Featured in Federer falls to Stepanek
"Hilly is a player I have long admired from a distance and I consider it a privilege that I have been able to work with such a great over the past two seasons."
Alan Gaffney
Friday 9th May 14:24
Featured in Saracens v Bristol: Teams
"This is a huge game for us and we will be ready for what should be a fantastic occasion."
Dean Ryan
Friday 9th May 13:34
Featured in Gloucester v Bath: Teams
"It's not everyday that you get to take on the cup holders at Knowsley Road, the boys will definitely be fired up."
Adrian Morley
Friday 9th May 12:52
Featured in Morley: We are raring to go
"He will certainly be fit for the Champions League final."
Ferguson on Rooney
Friday 9th May 10:09
Featured in Rooney fit for final
"We have been in the Premier League for seven years and everyone knows what relegation would mean."
Mohamed Al Fayed.
Friday 9th May 09:59
Featured in Cottagers chief to stay close
"The last thing we can do is take our foot off the pedal, because others will overtake us."
David Moyes
Friday 9th May 09:53
Featured in Moyes targets top four
"Steve Bruce could have stayed and taken Birmingham clear of trouble. That is definitely a possibility. But equally they could have been adrift."
Alex McLeish
Friday 9th May 09:11
Featured in Mac shrugs off Bruce jibes
"They will have more pressure on them this Sunday than us because nearly everyone believes the title is already United's."
Ricardo Carvalho.
Friday 9th May 08:48
Featured in Carvalho - Heat on United
"At Derby this year we've been sneered at, we've been laughed at, we've been ridiculed and I can accept it after the season we've had - but for Reading to say things like that is not right."
Paul Jewell
Friday 9th May 08:24
Featured in Jewell in Royals row
"I'd take an FA Cup win. I know the club might disagree with me because they get more money if you finish fourth but it doesn't go down in history, does it? Winning the FA Cup is a bit of history. What's fourth?"
Jonathan Woodgate
Friday 9th May 07:35
Featured in Woody targets silverware
"I am not an England selector. But from what I have seen this week he is pretty much back to his best with the ball."
Andrew Flintoff
Thursday 8th May 21:50
Featured in Colly - Be careful with Fred
"The big thing for me this year was to try and score runs and try and prove I can bat in this form of the game as well."
Luke Wright
Thursday 8th May 20:33
Featured in Wright eyes Test spot
"I'd like Fred to go and get lots of overs and miles into his legs and some runs under his belt."
Sir Ian Botham
Thursday 8th May 18:39
Featured in Don't rush Fred back
"I am really upset that an injury is forcing me to return home."
Morne Morkel
Thursday 8th May 17:52
Featured in Injured Morkel returns home
"I guess we landed on the moon so we can figure out how to get to the quarter-finals of a clay court tournament."
Andy Roddick.
Thursday 8th May 17:22
Featured in Federer sees off Karlovic
"If Leigh Adams doesn't win or do extremely well on Saturday night then I think his chances of being world champion are over."
Kelvin Tatum
Thursday 8th May 15:56
Featured in Pole position
"We'll keep an eye on Fred with a view to bringing him back to the team when it seems right for him and also, for England, that he is playing well enough."
Peter Moores on Andrew Flintoff
Thursday 8th May 15:36
Featured in Moores the merrier
"In 2005 the coaching staff went in with pre-conceived ideas as to what the Test team would be. Not everyone performed the way they should have but some guys still got into the Test team."
Brian O'Driscoll.
Thursday 8th May 15:12
Featured in O'Driscoll's Lions warning
"We've got a hard game on Sunday but we've beaten them before. They beat us with a minute to go last time so hopefully we can turn the tables around.
"With the way all our games have been, if I was a betting man, I'd say it will be close."
Jason Croker
Thursday 8th May 15:05
Featured in Croker - Expect Odsal thriller
"It would be the biggest fight we've had in Britain for so long. You are talking about two world champions in their prime getting in the ring. It would be bigger than Benn v Eubank and would sell out any arena worldwide."
Junior Witter
Thursday 8th May 13:28
Featured in No instant Hit
"Greatness is proved by what happens after you've been beaten."
Ricky Hatton
Thursday 8th May 12:06
Featured in Back... better than ever!
"I've always enjoyed the Brumbies' style of rugby and I believe it will suit my game."
Stephen Moore
Thursday 8th May 09:03
Featured in Brumbies sign Reds hooker
"If you can show me something that's worth winning without getting nervous for, well, then it's not really worth winning."
Walter Smith
Thursday 8th May 05:41
Featured in Smith - we'll hold nerve
"We are pulling in the same direction."
Moratti
Wednesday 7th May 20:13
Featured in Moratti quashes Mancini rift
"It is a farce that the SPL didn't give Rangers the weekend off."
Dick Advocaat.
Wednesday 7th May 20:06
Featured in Advocaat slams Gers 'farce'
"We will have further discussions when the season is over."
O'Neill on Barry's future
Wednesday 7th May 19:01
Featured in Villa to hold more Barry talks
"I've got to say, three or four weeks ago, our chances of survival looked so slim. But we didn't lose faith and we've always thought we could do what we've done."
Roy Hodgson.
Wednesday 7th May 18:52
Featured in Hodgson - I never lost faith
"He might not be fit to start, he might be fit to play a part."
Coppell on Little
Wednesday 7th May 17:46
Featured in Little 50-50 to face Rams
"My mum's favourite thing in life was to watch me play golf. She lived for it and the thing she would most want for me is the thing I'm best at in life."
Nick Dougherty
Wednesday 7th May 17:20
Featured in Mother's memory to spur Nick
"Nobody has contacted Luiz Felipe Scolari."
Fellegger
Wednesday 7th May 17:15
Featured in No City talks for Scolari
"I would be interested."
Teale on Plymouth switch
Wednesday 7th May 17:01
Featured in Teale interested in Pilgrims
"It would have been nice if they'd told the players exactly what the situation was, but I'd made my plans to come to Italy by then and after thinking about it for a couple of hours decided to stick to it."
Robert Karlsson
Wednesday 7th May 16:58
Featured in Karlsson - No Sawgrass regrets
"He must have the ability to adopt a kind of tactical approach that will benefit the whole team. Man management is very important, it is vital for the psychological bit of the tour and of course you have to have respect."
Wednesday 7th May 15:09
Featured in Class of 2009
"I'm confident, but I've never dealt with this (injury) before and it's in the worst possible spot."
Daniel Vettori
Wednesday 7th May 14:20
Featured in Vettori out of Lions clash
"If our players are not capable of doing that and just want to walk out for bigger contracts, for me that would be the biggest disappointment"
Arsene Wenger on his players looking to the future
Wednesday 7th May 14:06
Featured in Wenger rues Flamini exit
"The play-offs is one of the best concepts that has ever happened in the Football League."
Chris Kamara
Wednesday 7th May 12:28
Featured in Play-offs live on Sky Sports
"There is no greater honour for any coach than to lead his own country."
Declan Kidney
Wednesday 7th May 11:53
Featured in Kidney named Ireland boss
"If there is a reason why Europeans haven't won since '87, I don't know."
Padraig Harrington
Wednesday 7th May 11:41
Featured in Pod out to end Europe's wait
"It is an honour to be approached by a famous club so rich in history and success, but nothing should be read into it."
Dick Muir
Wednesday 7th May 11:06
Featured in Tigers approach Muir
"When Frank Rijkaard was asked about it - before he knew that those two players had said - he said it's a shame, these things happen. But then a journalist told him they (Deco and Eto'o) had said that actually they didn't know they were one yellow from suspension and he just turned round and said 'They're lying'."
Guillem Balague
Wednesday 7th May 10:45
Featured in Guard of dishonour
"It's very flattering to get the attention I've received in the past few weeks and read some of the nice things that are being said, but I'm very clear and will emphasise that this weekend is not about me or the other players and management who are moving on at the end of the season. "
Richard Hill
Wednesday 7th May 07:27
Featured in Hill wants the right result
"A lot of people say a lot of things in this club. Defeats are almost forbidden. I'm not thinking about any other thing than to continue my contract."
Marcelo Loffreda
Tuesday 6th May 22:48
Featured in Loffreda vows to fight on
"At the moment I want to stand up and fight, go toe-to-toe with anyone who has got my shirt"
Matthew Hoggard
Tuesday 6th May 21:41
Featured in Hoggard ready to fight
"Given a choice, I'd rather win a World Golf Championships event."
Lee Westwood
Tuesday 6th May 20:33
Featured in Westwood not buying the hype
"You don't just need the artistes, you need the hard workers."
Graham Hunter
Tuesday 6th May 19:05
Featured in 'No more Galacticos'
"I am definitely not coming here to make up the numbers. I am coming here to knock out Carl Froch."
Rubin Williams
Tuesday 6th May 18:29
Featured in Williams out to sting Cobra
"I am in discussions with other clubs."
Dwain Chambers' agent Ron Hill
Tuesday 6th May 18:05
Featured in Chambers has options - agent
"I don't know exactly how the course will be set up but I would guess it would be similar to what we saw last year."
Phil Mickelson
Tuesday 6th May 17:24
Featured in Mickelson eyeing repeat
"I save my best for the big occasion. I went to Scotland to fight Alex Arthur, who had a virtually identical record to Amir, and I blew him away in the fifth round. I'm going to do the same thing to Khan."
Michael Gomez
Tuesday 6th May 17:11
Featured in Gomez next up for Amir
"The Super Aguri F1 Team's withdrawal is indeed very disappointing for us but we understand that it was inevitable unless the team could find a way to stand alone by itself in the future."
Honda statement
Tuesday 6th May 16:18
Featured in Honda - Aguri exit 'inevitable'
"Now, I'm again back in my stride and feel like I'm playing well and nothing ever happened - it was a tough couple of months early on."
Roger Federer
Tuesday 6th May 15:14
Featured in No worries for Federer
"Some people don't realise the pressure people are under."
Gary Cahill
Tuesday 6th May 14:54
Featured in Cahill hails Bolton bottle
"Many people watched Dwain in the trial game and he has certainly won over some of the doubters, and proved that the trial was more than simply a 'publicity stunt'."
Richard Wright
Tuesday 6th May 14:24
Featured in Tigers end Chambers trial
"Nick's mum wanted him to do all he could to try to make the Ryder Cup team and so, after much consideration, Nick has decided to stick to his planned playing schedule for the year."
Brendan Taylor (Dougherty's manager)
Tuesday 6th May 12:54
Featured in Dougherty sticks by schedule
"I can think of no other role I would have left the club for, however this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and it allows to me to work and coach at the top end of the international game. "
Stuart Lancaster
Tuesday 6th May 10:08
Featured in Lancaster quits Leeds
"It's a terrific end to a superb season."
Vic Wakeling
Tuesday 6th May 09:01
Featured in Sky final day line-up
"There are other options."
Phillips
Tuesday 6th May 08:35
Featured in Phillips won't pledge future
"I would be doing Queensland Rugby, my team-mates and myself a disservice by playing on if my heart's not in it."
David Croft
Tuesday 6th May 08:34
Featured in Croft: I've no regrets
"I recognise my action was a thoughtless one."
Nani
Tuesday 6th May 08:02
Featured in Nani sorry for red
"If I am picked I will be happy, if I am not I will be disappointed, bloody disappointed, but it will not be through lack of trying."
Nick Evans
Tuesday 6th May 07:49
Featured in Evans keeps NZ hopes alive
"There is not any sort of agreement with Manchester United."
Bosingwa's agent
Tuesday 6th May 07:49
Featured in Utd deal for Bosingwa denied
"Vaughany, as captain, gets to bat where he wants."
Alastair Cook
Monday 5th May 17:46
Featured in Cook coming to the boil
"I am very happy, thank you"
Mathieu Flamini on his move to Milan
Monday 5th May 17:23
Featured in Milan confirm Flamini deal
"For Real Madrid fans it feels doubly good this title - even more so than last year. Why's that? Because they have done it in the Real Madrid style."
Guillem Balague
Monday 5th May 16:56
Featured in All smiles and style
"A Leeds United versus Doncaster Rovers final is still on."
John Ryan
Monday 5th May 16:30
Featured in Rovers eye Whites final
"I'm just working on getting the job done May 24. I'm focused on doing my job on this card, not looking any deeper than I have to."
Paulie Malignaggi
Monday 5th May 15:17
Featured in Paulie's eyes on the prize
"I'm lost for words, to be honest with you. I'm not a party person, but I will enjoy this."
Peter Lawrie
Monday 5th May 14:16
Featured in Lawrie revels in maiden win
"Clearly it will be more difficult for Torres next season."
Benitez
Monday 5th May 14:12
Featured in Benitez warning for Torres
"We hope that Honda board members would be willing to have faith in our long term business plan."
Franz Josef Weigl
Monday 5th May 14:03
Featured in Weigl confident of Aguri rescue
"He's a 30-year-old with a 20-year-old's body, at least for rugby league purposes."
Dwain Chambers' spokesman
Monday 5th May 13:24
Featured in Chambers to learn fate
"I've been itching to come over and play county cricket and to be picked by the champions has filled me with confidence."
Corey Collymore
Monday 5th May 12:50
Featured in Sussex bring in Collymore
"If the lad wants to go, let him go."
Nolan on Diouf
Monday 5th May 12:14
Featured in Nolan - Let Diouf go
"You can well and truly say Ignacio Garrido is back as a contender on the European Tour."
Mark Roe
Monday 5th May 12:12
Featured in Ignacio ignited again
"We'd love him to stay here as it is great for the squad to have competition for place up front."
Caldwell on Samaras
Monday 5th May 11:59
Featured in Caldwell eyes striker stay
"If you're going to enjoy the play-offs then you've got to win because if you get beat then you've really got to pick your club up."
Gary Johnson
Monday 5th May 11:47
Featured in Play-off pain
"I would say that the team is at least at the same level and maybe a bit better."
Cech comparing Grant's side to Mourinho's
Monday 5th May 11:39
Featured in Cech hails Grant's troops
"We've already developer plan to make significant investment in the playing squad during the summer."
Madejski.
Monday 5th May 11:05
Featured in Madejski ready to invest
"You can only play mixed football up to the age of 11 and I think that has hampered the development of really talented young girls."
Kelly Simmons
Monday 5th May 10:03
Featured in Girls allowed?
"I just wish the Test was co-ordinated better, on a better weekend. If it was a Super League weekend, no problem, but the ruling has been made now and we will carry on."
Leeds coach Brian McClennan
Saturday 3rd May 23:25
Featured in Bulls disappoint McNamara
"I'm really disappointed for our fans and all the other fans because we failed to show up. That was as bad as it's been for us."
Castleford Tigers coach Terry Matterson
Saturday 3rd May 20:18
Featured in Matterson - It was diabolical
"I'm just delighted with the character shown by the players to correct the casualness with the ball that almost cost us the game and come out and produce a fantastic performance."
Warrington Wolves coach Paul Cullen
Saturday 3rd May 19:57
Featured in Comeback delights Cullen
"The upside is that I have been through this process before and know how to handle it."
Tiger Woods
Wednesday 16th April 07:21
Featured in Woods goes under knife
"Angelina Jolie just wanted to meet me. They were dead quiet and it was if they were dead nervous!"
Ricky Hatton
Saturday 12th April 15:40
Featured in A Jolie bad show
"Winning the next two fights I will re-establish myself and get the rematch. And hopefully Mayweather will come over here, because I always have to go over there."
Ricky Hatton
Saturday 12th April 14:31
Featured in Ricky in rematch talks
"The more times you're up there the more comfortable you begin to feel and the easier it becomes."
Justin Rose
Friday 11th April 08:17
Featured in Rose aims for third time lucky
"Boxing is nice and easy when you're winning but when you lose you find out what sort of boxer and man you are."
Ricky Hatton
Friday 28th March 07:57
Featured in Hatton to silence doubters
"It's very likely that Floyd will come over next spring. Floyd and his manager Al Hayman are very serious about it."
Richard Schaefer
Thursday 27th March 15:29
Featured in Hatton-Mayweather part two
"I'm ready to sign on the dotted line and prove to the Hattons and everyone else that Paulie Malignaggi is ready and up for the task of making this the biggest and best promotion that it can be."
Paulie Malignaggi
Wednesday 19th March 09:08
Featured in Malignaggi's mad for it
"It is at a fan-friendly time, an English time. I put my contract with HBO and Golden Boy on hold so that I don't have to have it at two in the morning just to coincide with TV. I could have made a fair few extra quid for having it at two in the morning."
Ricky Hatton
Wednesday 12th March 11:59
Featured in Book Hatton's homecoming
"He's a fighter universally loved by fight fans because of his heart and aggressive style. We're all expecting even bigger and better things from him in the coming months."
Oscar de la Hoya on Ricky Hatton
Monday 10th March 09:34
Featured in Hatton signs for Golden Boy
"I think that Floyd has realised he has bitten off more than he can chew. I have gone from thinking I will win to really believing and knowing I will knock him out."
Ricky Hatton
Thursday 6th December 16:59
Featured in 10 rounds with Ricky
