"What are the pleasures anyway?"

- Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger questioning the job satisfaction involved in international soccer management, especially England.

"You guys would be lucky to touch it."

- Australian coach Leigh Matthews on Ireland's chances with an oval ball in an International Rules game.

"Foolish me who once studied law. I should have realised an unwritten agreement was precisely that. The phrase `gentleman's agreement' will disappear from my vocabulary."

- Manager Martin O'Neill on how Leicester City broke their verbal agreement which would have allowed him to talk to Leeds United.