"Then boom, he comes up on the blind side and down I went, hitting my head on the way down." - Sergio Garcia's American caddy Jerry Higginbotham, who was attacked in a bar because he worked with the Spanish teenager.

"If you tried to hammer a nail into his body, you couldn't." - Manager Phil Kinglsey Jones commenting on the current condition of All Black winger Jonah Lomu.

"Look it. This is the Mecca of the game. It's like reaching the promised land." - Manager Sean Boylan after Meath's triumph over Cork in the All-Ireland football final last Sunday.