The Daily Mail's (UK) Sports Quotes of the Year

TENNIS

"I just couldn't lose to a bloke wearing a shirt like that,"

Lleyton Hewitt following his US Open victory over Dominik Hrbaty, who wore a pink and black shirt with two oval holes cut out of the back.

GOLF

"They don't let you smoke or drink in gyms so you know I'm not going to have any fun doing that."

- John Daly plays it straight as he insists he has no plans to pump iron.


"I am 42 now and supposed to be going downhill. It's nice to go the other way."

- Colin Montgomerie on the resurgence in his game which saw him continue his red-hot form.

FORMULA ONE

"One zigged when he should have zagged"

- Minardi spokesman on a collision between Chanoch Nissany, the first Israeli to drive a F1 car, and Dutch team mate Christijan Albers during a Minardi test at Mugello on an otherwise empty circuit.

SOURCE: dailymail.co.uk, August 30, 2006, "Our Sports Quotes of the Year"