Sports Speak: The week in quotes

"I'm going to leave it to the new generation, to the crash-it-up robots that dominate the game."

"I'm going to leave it to the new generation, to the crash-it-up robots that dominate the game."

- Australian rugby legend David Campese ending his career this week with a typically controversial swipe at the modern game.

"We don't begrudge them their good fortune, in fact we admire them."

- A gracious FAI chief executive Bernard O'Byrne on Croke Park's ability to screw £20 million out of the Government.

READ MORE

"I don't think you made a bad decision on the 18th. There's no safe way to play that f*****g hole."

- New Zealand's Greg Turner commiserating with the nearly man of the British Open, Jean Van De Velde, at the K Club this week.

Johnny Watterson

Johnny Watterson

Johnny Watterson is a sports writer with The Irish Times