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| Hoops | 'He had a very impressive first debut.' - GLR | | |
| Hoops | 'Scholes hits the goalpost - he could hardly have hit that any better.' - BBC World Service | | |
| Hoops | '52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000.' - Bryon Butler | | |
| Hoops | 'The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose.' - John Helm | | |
| Hoops | 'Forest have now lost six matches without winning.' - David Coleman | | |
| Hoops | 'That youngster is playing well beyond his 19 years - that's because he's 21.' - David Begg | | |
| Hoops | 'Leeds are enjoying more possession now that they have the ball.' - Simon Brotherton | | |
| Hoops | 'I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction.' - Archie Macpherson | | |
| Hoops | 'Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.' - David Achfield | | |
| Hoops | ‘West Germany's Briegel hasn't been able to get past anyone yet - that's his trademark.' - John Helm | | |
| Hoops | '30 minutes to go, and it's still 1-0 apiece.' - Commentator | | |
| Hoops | 'The Italians are hoping for an Italian victory.' - David Coleman | | |
| Hoops | 'He went through a non-existant gap.' - Clive Tyldesley | | |
| Hoops | 'What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker.' - Peter Drury | | |
| Hoops | 'You don't score 64 goals in 86 games without being able to score goals.' - Alan Green | | |
| Hoops | 'If that had gone in, it would have been a goal' - David Coleman | | |
| Hoops | 'Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.' - Ian Darke | | |
| Hoops | “Chim chimney, chim chimney, Chim-chim chiroo, who needs Sol Campbell when we've got Shittu!”- QPR fans. | | |
| Hoops | "There are two great teams on Merseyside; Liverpool and Liverpool Reserves." - Bill Shankly | | |
| Hoops | “A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” - Bob Dylan | | |
| Hoops | “Coffee isn't my cup of tea.” - Samuel Goldwyn | | |
| Hoops | “Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.” - Will Rogers | | |
| Hoops | 'We lost because we didn't win.' - Ronaldo | | |
| Hoops | 'I would not be bothered if we lost every gamelong as we won the league.' - Mark Viduka (Leeds) | | |
| Hoops | 'I've had 14 bookings this season - 8 of which were my fault, but 7 of which were disputable.' - Paul Gascoigne (Everton) | | |
| Hoops | 'I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.' - Alan Shearer (Newcastle) | | |
| Hoops | 'I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona.' - Mark Draper | | |
| Hoops | 'I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.' - Gazza | | |
| Hoops | 'Germany are a very difficult team to play...they had 11 internationals out there today.' - Steve Lomas | | |
| Hoops | 'Sometimes in football you have to score goals.' A. Idiot | | |
| Hoops | 'My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.' - Unknown | | |
| Hoops | 'There's no in between - you're either good or bad. We were in between.' - Gary Lineker (ex-Spurs) | | |
| Boxer | "One moment I'm playing football and the next - whack - I wake up in hospital unconscious." - Alan Brazil | | |
| Boxer | "He held his head in his hands as it flashed past the post." - Alan Brazil | | |
| Boxer | 'The only way to survive a bear attack is to be with someone that can't run as fast as you' - Bill Bryson | | |
| Boxer | ' Right now, everything is going wrong for me - if I fell in a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb!' - Ian Holloway | | |
| Boxer | 'Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.' - George Bernard Shaw | | |
| Boxer | 'We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing' - George Bernard Shaw | | |
| Boxer | "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong." - Samuel Goldwyn | | |