Sports Speak: The week in quotes

"I didn't do it. It wasn't me."

Bath's Kevin Yates once again claiming he was not the one to take a bite-sized lump out of the ear of London Scottish front row Simon Fenn.

"Where's my money, you f*****g crook."

Mike Tyson, attempting the impossible - getting money out of promoter Don King.

"I was talking to a local man and he said it was the biggest shock he got since Elvis died."

A Gowran woman on the announcement of Kilkenny hurling star D J Carey's retirement at 27.

"I believe he'll be back when the good weather comes in and the long evenings and the drama of the championship. I can't believe he'll say no. How's he going to tell his son that he gave up the game at 27 even though he was the top player in the country?"

The view of former Kilkenny manager and county chairman Nicky Brennan who has coached Carey at various levels since 1990.

"I can't understand how he's going to meet all his club colleagues going to mass on a Sunday morning with a match against James Stephens on at 2.0 and then walk away and maybe not even watch the match. When the man above gives you all that talent, you have to use it to the full."

Brennan again on Carey.