"Last year balls came out of trees and in Canada I hit a guy on the fly and made birdie." - Tiger Woods explaining that even golfers with his natural talent occasionally have to rely on a little luck to win tournaments.
"There are more than one or two who are a bit confused - we are in the dark and a bit uneasy." - Ireland's Jeff Kenna expressing his concern over transfer arrangements at his club Blackburn Rovers. Kenna has been confined to the bench since recovering from injury last season.
"It will give me immense pleasure to stuff it up Benetton." - Eddie Jordan, not complaining about the fashion company's occasionally offensive advertising, but the poaching of the Jordan technical director Mike Gascoyne.
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