QUOTES OF THE WEEK
The Dubs deal effortlessly with blanket defences. The Dubs are quicker, the Dubs are stronger all over the field. They have so many scorers all over the field. They know the game inside out. Their baseline is that they start with skill-based football. They are a learning team... Joe Brolly on who will win in Croke Park today.
Mayo should do the same as in last year’s drawn final and the replayed semifinal against Kerry. In other words, just outplay Dublin by really going at them without any fear. There is no chance of victory and glory by backing off and trying to play safe all the time. Fortune favours the brave. Sports broadcaster Colm O’Rourke.
It’s a free one for Mayo on Sunday. No one expects them to win. It’s their best ever chance. Rugby star Brian O’Driscoll.
It’s not my cup. It’s the players’ cup. It’s their success. Not mine. Dubs manager Jim Gavin on how humility is key to Dublin success.
Dublin completely ignore you on the field. No matter what you do, they just keep going, whether they are 10 behind or 10 up. Kerry great Colm ‘The Gooch’ Cooper. I was blissfully reading my paper and suddenly the whole world charged past me down the platform, down the Tube. I saw crying women, and lots of shouting and screaming. There was a crush on the stairs going down to the streets. Some people got pushed over and trampled on. Richard Aylmer-Hall ,a passenger on the London Tube hit by a terrorist attack.
Those sanctions are nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen. US President Donald Trump in a fresh warning to North Korea.
A Slovak deserves to have as much fish in fish fingers as anyone else. European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker on the need for equal consumer rights for all.
I don’t want to hear my voice. It is in the past. Opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa who says she will never sing in public again.
Jealousy is horrible, but competition is not. Elton John.
“It’s like when you go to the country and smell a cowpat and after two minutes you don’t smell it any more.” Jamie Oliver prefers to ignore fellow chef Gordon Ramsay’s alleged goading of him.
“Don’t get caught with your mistress.” Ozzy Osbourne reveals the secret of his long marriage.