"And he came out running..." - Bruce (the Goose) McAvaney doing a fantastic job commentating on the start of the Men's 400m Olympic hurdles final.

"She's off to a good start, she's jumped off the blocks..." - Bruce again trying to commentate on one of the Olympic swimming races. Keep up the good work, buddy.

"The match is a sell-out, so we should get a good crowd" - Matt Gidley, Newcastle Knights. *sigh* Oh well, he is cute ...

"Can't bowl, can't throw" - Warney, or was that the cameraman...

"I shat in Schlossy's shoe" - Julian O'Neill in a 3am phone conversation to Souths utility, Troy Slattery on a Souths trip away in a Dubbo motel. Charming Julian, just charming...

"You almost look as good as me" - Julian O'Neill (again) to his bride at their wedding. Sheesh, she musta looked pretty bad then....

Ray: "What when through your mind when you realised you were sinking?"
John: "Shit, we're sinking!"
Ray Martin interviewing John Bertrand in 1995 after Australia One sank in the America's Cup Challenge.

"He hit him so hard that when he came to, his clothes were out of fashion" - comment about David Furner's left hook on Shane Webke in a State of Origin match.

"Patten dead set thought the ball was covered in spiders or something" - Parramatta coach Brian Smith's comments on ABC radio during a St George-Illawarra game earlier this year when fullback Luke Patten failed to clean up a loose ball in his own in-goal thus allowing an opponent pounce on it for a try.

"Three point seven billion people have just joined us. That's more than three billion" - An interesting bit of information from Bruce McAvaney as he described the opening ceremony. (Does he ever stop????)

"Pain only hurts when you feel it" - Jack Gibson's enlightening commentary during a State of Origin game.

While watching the US PGA, the commentator asked Stuart Appleby what he would have to shoot (score) to win the tournament, He replied -
"Tiger Woods!"

"And there's the Danish girl, with plenty of fluid in her knickers" - Channel 7 commentary from the Olympics, over camera shot of a Danish women's marathon runner with a water bottle tucked in her waistband.(Whats the bet it was BRUCE??)

 

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