Left Coast Sports Babe

English sports may seem a world away – English athletes, not so much.

The following are real quotes as collected by the London Telegraph:

From Ronnie O’Sullivan – snooker legend “I first played with my left hand when I was 17. Things weren’t going well.  I needed to find a way through and it felt good.  My left hand is like a mistress.  My wife is my right hand and my mistress is my left.  It’s been good to me.

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Olympic cyclist Chris Hoy, not suffering from any lack of confidence  – “Chris Hoy thinks that the day Chris Hoy refers to Chris Hoy in the third person is the day that Chris Hoy disappears up his own —.”

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And English rugby coach Brian Ashton after being upset by Wales in the Six Nations championship, showing he is ready for the NFL, at least the post-game interviews. “One of our key messages before the game was not to feed Wales.  In the second half we took all our food out of the cupboard and put it on a plate for them.”

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And journalists don’t change that much either:

This is after jockey Rudy Walsh chose to ride runner-up Kauto Star rather than the winning horse Denman in the Cheltenham Gold Cup  (a big English race.)

The question (from Derek Thompson)  “Any thoughts now about whether you should have gone for Denman or whatever?

Walsh “That’s probably the most ridiculous question I’ve ever been asked.”

“It is, I know, but I had to ask you.”

“No, you didn’t have to ask me.”

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