classic are over.

"It's a weird feeling when you're just not pumped up for it. Age didn't come into it, it's just a different era in my life with other things to do.'' -- More Douglas.

"It was not a plane, it was a rocket.'' -- Frenchman Laurent Fignon, competing in the Tour de France, commenting on pre-race favourite Miguel Indurain who flattened the field in Monday's time trial.

"We try not to let any team come into our back yard and beat us. My boys are confident, but not overconfident.'' -- Southampton Rangers' player/coach Clevie Wade speaking before his `boys' handed Warwick a humiliating nine wicket defeat in the first round of the Western Counties.

star "I still enjoy doing what I'm doing -- I just don't do as well as I used to.

I'm like everyone else. I want to stay young, and with competition you can think you're still 22 years old.'' -- Retiring decathlete Daley Thompson, after failing in a last-ditch effort to qualify for the 1992 Olympic Games as a member of the English squad.

"It was a real blow to my ego. I was looking at my speedometer get slower and slower...and I couldn't do anything about it.'' -- French based cyclist Elliott Hubbard on racing in the ill-fated French Championships.

"There is everything from seaweed and plastic bags to condoms and sanitary towels.'' -- Greek windsurfer Nikolaos Kaklamankis complaining about training conditions in Barcelona at the Parc de Mar venue.

"For a long time, when the National League All-Stars walked on the field they expected to win. They didn't boast about it, but they thought they were the better league.'' -- Paul Molitor of the Milwaukee Brewers after the American League handed the National League a 13-6 thrashing.