SportsSpeak: Week in Quotes

"The files have been passed on to a national newspaper because the private investigator wanted to be paid and felt a national…

"The files have been passed on to a national newspaper because the private investigator wanted to be paid and felt a national news paper would work a lot faster and possibly more thoroughly than the FA."

- Publicist Max Clifford on discovering financial irregularities in Gillingham FC.

"Dehydration is the one thing that has connected all of these injuries,"

- As Paul Ingle finally walks again, former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan urges the sports governors to monitor fighters' weights.

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"We have done what Martina Navratilova did, we have taken tennis to new levels and we should definitely be known worldwide for that."

- The extraordinary Venus Williams making equally extraordinary claims.

Johnny Watterson

Johnny Watterson

Johnny Watterson is a sports writer with The Irish Times