Scottish Athlete Quotations

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career.

I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.

I thought you were supposed to be flying this thing, not pleasuring it.

It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.

Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.

Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.

I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it.

We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!

These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.

What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club.

We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well.

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.

The problem England have got is that if they don't win the group they will play the French and if they play them, they will be beaten.

Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.

I've watched the current squad three or four times and I think that survival will be the first aim, but Keegan has got this way about him.

There were no medical facilities, but now today it is like an intensive care unit. Who would want to argue against that? People were dying regularly.

The biggest issue for anyone who wants to do improvements is you need the money to afford them, and we are doing what we can to afford them.

I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.

If you come up and are struggling after three months you need the money to be able to buy somebody who can give you a bit of impetus.

In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

The media want the stories and the television companies want the stories and the papers want the story and means that it is everyday.