SportsSpeak: Week in quotes

"I got fed up wriggling around in my shorts looking for my balls."

"I got fed up wriggling around in my shorts looking for my balls."

- Andre Agassi explains why he has switched from baggy shorts, which he pioneered, to the more classic tight variety.

"Stronger now than it has ever been,"

- FAI chief executive Bernard O'Byrne showing a braver face than many others on the future of Eircom Park.

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"I'm one hundred per cent confident of winning,"

- OCI president Pat Hickey predicts he will be re-elected as OCI President ahead of Richard Burrows.

"We know they gave us drugs. When the doctors said `take this it is vitamins, it is good for you', you believed them,"

- Queen of the pit in the Olympics and World Championships, Heike Drechsler finally admits that she had a little extra for those winning long jumps.

Johnny Watterson

Johnny Watterson

Johnny Watterson is a sports writer with The Irish Times