"I suppose he'd put that through as 120 plus vat."

- Dougie Donnelly on Dungannon's Patrick Wallace, who had a 135 break at the Crucible. Wallace is a qualified accountant.

"Donal (Lenihan) tried to ring me this morning but I had the phone diverted so I didn't get the call initially. I was in bed."

- Malcolm O`Kelly showing a refreshingly laid-back attitude to the Lions selection on Wednesday morning.

"We even have fear of eating meat. Some ate wild boar and horse because it had more blood in it."

- Juventus and Italy striker Alessandro Del Piero on Italian players' diets after Edgar Davids failed a drug test.

"It's all upstairs. Sometimes you don't think the things you should be thinking. It's not that what I was thinking about is worth talking about."

- Alan McManus trying to explain his first-round defeat to Ireland's Patrick Wallace at the Crucible.