Subject: Colemanballs (Page 13)

I don’t know if that was a good bad one or a bad good one.

English football player, manager & sports commentator

I’m not going to pick out anyone in particular, but Jay Jay Okocha should not be captain of a soccer club.

English football player

You’re either very good or very bad, there’s no in between; we were in between.

English football player & sportscaster

The late start is due to the time.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

He hit that one like an arrow.


We estimate, and this isn’t an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I would like to be a mole on their dressing room wall.

English football player & manager

The problems at Wimbledon seem to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency.

Irish football player & manager

He tried out this new formation, 4-3-1-2… bit like the Christmas Tree formation.

English football player & announcer

Being naturally right-footed he doesn’t often chance his arm with his left foot.

English football player & analyst

There are so many teams now down at the bottom of the Third Division; the FA really has to do something about it.

Scottish football player

It’s a battle with himself and with the ticking fingers of the clock.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

It’s his first cap, so he’s not got a lot of experience at this level.

English professional football player & commentator

I felt a lump in my mouth as the ball went in.

English football player & manager

The Blackburn crowd have been saturated by fifty thousand Newcastle fans.

Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.

English soccer commentator

I’m not a believer in luck but I do believe you need it.

It's always very satisfying to beat Arsenal, as indeed Arsenal would admit.

English football player

It was that game that put the Everton ship back on the road.

English soccer commentator

He was on the six-yard line, just two yards away from the goal.

Scottish football player, writer & broadcaster

And Michael Schumacher just stood on his seat and pulled out something special.

British auto racer