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Sport and leisure interests: Sample quotations
Muhammad Ali
US boxer
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.
I beat people up.
[The New York Times 6 April 1977]
George Best
Northern Irish footballer and former alcoholic
It's a pleasure to be standing up here. It's a pleasure to be standing up.
[On being named as Footballer of the Century; Independent, 22 May 1999]
Kenny (Kenneth Mathieson) Dalglish
Scottish footballer and manager of Newcastle United FC
We wish them well in the FA Trophy. I hope they get beat in the next round.
[Pays ungracious tribute to non-league Stevenage Borough, beaten 2–1 by Newcastle in an FA Cup fourth round replay. BBC Radio Newcastle, 5 February 1998.]
Henry Ford
US automobile manufacturer
If you are fit you don't need it; if you're not you shouldn't risk it.
[On exercise.]
James Hunt
English racing driver
I think what it is really about is getting in a car and putting your foot down.
[On motor racing.]
Lord Mancroft
English businessman and writer
Cricket – a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
[Bees in Some Bonnets]
Diego Maradona
Argentine footballer
The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.
[After scoring a doubtful goal in the World Cup 1986]
John Snagge
British sports commentator
It's Oxford! No, it's Cambridge! I can't see. It's Oxford ... no ... well, one of them must be winning!
[Commentating on the 1954 Oxford versus Cambridge boat race.]
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