2015 MEMORABLE QUOTES

“IT nearly killed me,” sighed newly crowned 400m world champion after returning from a Beijing hospital.

Earlier, the South African had literally run himself to a standstill to claim gold at the World Championships in a time of 43.48sec. “I was worried that I would see people dancing on the ball and doing all these other shibobos. In my team I don’t want that,” Sundowns head coach Pitso Mosimane said in the afterglow of a 6-1 win.

“I want six goals, what’s the point of doing shibobos and you score two goals? Score six, big teams score six.” “I must say that my pre-match prediction was horribly wrong, I didn’t expect us to be as impotent as we were, and I certainly didn’t expect them to have the cutting edge they had,” said former coach

about the Springboks’ performance against Japan at the World Cup in England. Bafana Bafana head coach Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba perhaps overreached a tad in explaining his team’s “shock” defeat to Mauritania.

“It happens all over — even Jesus Christ himself went through pains but He managed to go on, saving and preaching to people.” “Every time you put on a green jersey you are under pressure,” reminded Proteas head coach

on the eve of the team’s departure to the Cricket World Cup.

“We expect so much. I’m really trying to downplay it. I’m hoping my wife still loves me afterwards whether we win or not. My happiness should not depend on whether we win a World Cup. There are more important things in life.”

The Proteas fell in the semifinals, but we understand Domingo is still a married man. “Why are you hating from outside Las Vegas when you couldn’t get in,” high-rolling sports minister Fikile Mbalula hit back when detractors demanded to know what he was doing at the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight.