"The circuit has become jaded because nothing has developed in the last five or six years."

- Stephen Hendry, lending his support to the proposed new world snooker tour.

"To that end the association (GAA) will have to consider very seriously the possibility of allowing other sports to use our facilities and to charge them the going rate for it."

- Kilkenny County Board secretary Pat Dunphy suggesting heresy over the use of Croke Park.

"Your readers are our shoplifters."

- Former rugby international Dr Tony O'Reilly recalling an answer from a Bloomingdales executive to Rupert Murdoch when the newspaper tycoon asked why Bloomingdales did not advertise with Murdoch's down-market New York Daily News.