"I was talking to too many men. They were campaigning for me to name a son after them and muddled the wavelengths."

- Sonia O'Sullivan, who had been expecting a boy, after the birth of her daughter Ciara.

"When Michael Schumacher is back he will have to drive for me as I have for him over the last three years."

- Eddie Irvine (above), as always, ups the ante.

"Maybe I should have laid up."

- Jean Van de Velde on his dramatic collapse at the last regulation hole of the British Open.