THEY SAID WHAT?

“I said to my team, ‘look, I think I can get through this until Wimbledon’. That’s where I’d like to stop playing. But I’m also not certain I’m able to do that”

- An emotional Sir Andy Murray announcing the probable end of his professional tennis career.

“Andy Murray is a legend - without doubt one of Scotland’s greatest ever sportsmen, as well as an outstanding role model and inspiration for young people everywhere”

- Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First

Minister, pays her tribute.

“If this is the Government being in control, what does out of control look like?”

- Broadcaster Fiona Bruce, below, challenges Tory deputy chairman James Cleverly during her maiden stint hosting the BBC’s Question Time programme. “It’s going to be a very loud year for me”

- South London rapper Octavian who has been crowned winner of the BBC Music’s Sound Of 2019.

“I’ve always felt all the jobs I’ve ever got are on merit. I’m such a Beeb girl, they’ve always been great to me” - Zoe Ball denying that she landed the job hosting the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show because she is a woman.

“I’m not prepared to do that yet, but if I have to I will. So we’re either going to have a win, make a compromise, because I think a compromise is a win for everybody, or I will declare a national emergency”

- President Trump’s warning over his determination to build a wall

along the Mexican border.

“I am well aware of how to go about chairing the business of the House and will go on doing so no matter how much abuse I get. It is water off a duck’s back”

- Commons Speaker John Bercow.