"I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'm broke. I've lost between 100 and 150 million dollars."

- Ben Johnson, one-time fastest man on earth, now surviving on the charity of friends.

"I have a feeling about him."

- Sheikh Mohammed after outbidding John Magnier with a record price tag of $3.9 million for a two-year-old colt named Fasliyev.

"I'll be extremely happy if I knock him out in one round."

- WBC champion Oscar De La Hoya on Felix Trinidad ahead of tonight's battle of the undefeated welterweights in Las Vegas.