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Actual Sport commentaries:

1. "Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew."
(Harry Carpenter - BBC TV Boat Race 1977)

2. "Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field."
(Metro Radio)

3. "This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother."
(Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator)

4. "Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago"
(David Coleman - Sports Commentator)

5. "We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite"
(Murray Walker - F1 Motor Racing Commentator)

6. "On the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living in Italy:
"It was like being in a foreign country"
(Ian Rush - Footballer)

7. "The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is
identical"
(Murray Walker - F1 Motor Racing Commentator)

8. "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father"
(Greg Norman - Australian Golfer)

9. "Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious"
(Alan Minter - Former British Boxing Champion)

10. "The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball"
(John Francombe - Jockey)

11. "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again"
(Terry Venables - Footballer turned Football Manager and Media Pundit)

12. "We'll still be happy if we lose. It's on at the same time as the Beer
Festival"
(Noel O' Mahony - Cork City Football Club manager before the game in Munich)

13. "I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat."
(Ron Atkinson - Football Club Manager)

14. Dennis Pennis: "Have you ever thought of writing your autobiography?"
Chris Eubank Boxing Champion: "On what?"

15. "Well , either side could win it, or it could be a draw."
(Ron Atkinson - Football Club Manager)

16. "Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for
even longer."
(David Acfield)

17. "What will you do when you leave football, Jack - will you stay in
football?"
(Stuart Hall - Radio 5 Live)

18. "I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona"
(Mark Draper - Aston Villa)

19 "There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class"
(David Coleman at The Montreal Olympics)

20 "...and Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavillion."
(John Arlott - Cricket Commentator)

21. "These greens are so fast they must bikini wax them."
(Gary McCord on the greens at Augusta)

22. "One of the reasons Arnie (Arnold Palmer) is playing so well is that, before each tee-shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them. Oh my God, what have I just said?"
(USTV commentator)

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