A quick glance through the sporting quotes of 2007, some funny, some mundane and some treading the line in-between.

I would like to sleep on my future as a coach. It's what I do best, what I try to do best. I'm not going to throw away coaching just like that.

Bob Woolmer following Pakistan's shock first-round exit on March 17.

McLaren got it wrong. They lost the championship for the mistaken decisions they made in the second part of the season. It isn't a secret that they haven't helped me much.

2005 and 2006 champion Fernando Alonso at the end of the season.

It's not going to really change my life too much. Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen on winning the title.

If Hamilton wins the championship, he will also win it thanks to Ferrari because there is a lot of Ferrari in his car.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo. McLaren were fined a record $100 million and stripped of all their constructors' points for having Ferrari data in their possession.

My job is to win the world championship. My job isn't for people to love and hug me...it's not a love-in. I want to have positive relationships with my drivers but it's difficult sometimes.

McLaren boss Ron Dennis.

I feel like a cow on ice. Especially on clay.

Maria Sharapova sums up her movement on her least favourite surface.

Just as many times I have cried with the Iraqis, in this circumstance I rejoice with them.

Pope Benedict after Iraq's unexpected triumph in Asian Cup football.

The style of how we play is very important. But it is omelettes and eggs. No eggs -- no omelettes! It depends on the quality of the eggs. In the supermarket you have class one, two or class three eggs and some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem.

Jose Mourinho blames Chelsea's long injury list for a defeat in the Premier League in September. He left the club just days later.

I hope that Napoli win these last few games. You watch, if we go up I will do a striptease. The fans have a total passion, the city deserves promotion.

Napoli did win promotion back to Serie A but fan Sofia Loren reneged on her promise...in public at least.

It is with a great amount of shame that I stand before you and tell you that I have betrayed your trust. I have let my country down and I have let myself down.

American track athlete Marion Jones admitting that she had used steroids in the run-up to the Sydney Olympics in the year 2000, where she won five medals to become a super star.