The BBC don't seem to be doing this, but if you see any funny/interesting quotes, post them here!

As usual Serena has come up with a few corkers :lol:

And I knew that if I did go down, then there's a 99.9 percent chance that she would not win the next round. So that encouraged me to even fight harder.Serena Williams

(about whether she was crying after the losing the first set):
No, no. I just think I make these faces that I have to stop making, because I hate when I watch film and I hate when I see those faces. I'm the baby. I was the youngest. I was always treated the best. I'm a whiner, a complainer. It doesn't help. Serena Williams


Q. And also sometimes you're known for your flamboyance. Maybe on a Saturday, you'd be out. How did you feel about playing at 11:00 o'clock on Sunday morning?

SERENA WILLIAMS: First of all, I never go out on Saturday night, especially on a Grand Slam. I'm like a hermit. I'm psycho. I'll stay in my room all day and all night. It's interesting playing on Sunday, and I actually was upset because I was out there. I was thinking there's no way I'm gonna go home on Sunday, you know. It's not even Monday. I can't lose on Sunday. I was just like, no way, so, but it also kept me really motivated.

I shall obviously post a Marat quote.....

Q. Your form on clay and the build‑up to the French Open has been sort of up and down. How easy is it for you to turn it on when it comes to a Grand Slam?

MARAT SAFIN: Well, it wasn't even ups and downs, it was just downhill.

:lol:

Marats another one who always comes up with some corkers :lol:

Good stuff guys :D

I noticed the one with Serena where she said that fi her opponent went on she had a 99.9% chance; cracked me up too! roflmao It was like saying "I have to beat this waste of space loser". roflmao

Safin and Serena, the best at the gaffes roflmao

Serena especially, just speaks her mind and good on her. Refreshing than all the other drones in the press conferences who always do the usual ' My opponent was very tough so i had to play very well'

blah, blah :rolleyes: roflmao

Its called showing respect for your opponent roflmao

Still bores the hell out of me! I want carnage and riots roflmao

:ok: roflmao

isnt that what Venus said about about cornet? roflmao

It was a mellow point for her roflmao

think she just wanted to get to the locker room to get that hat off roflmao she must have been sweating cobs!!!

Venus and her high-maintenance :lol:

filling in mary's shoes roflmao

Sweating cobs! roflmao Haven;t heard that for a while. My mum says it all the time.

it was funny when i moved to leicester and discovered they called barmcakes 'cobs'!!!! sweating cobs took on a whole new meaning!!!

You lot have spammed up my quotes thread :angry: :moody:































Joking :lol: :whistle:

:spam: :spam: :spam: roflmao roflmao

Lovely quote from Myskina:

Q. What was it like for you the last five months when you were in Moscow and living like a regular person?

ANASTASIA MYSKINA: It was great.

Q. What kind of things did you do specifically?

ANASTASIA MYSKINA: I was working on TV. I had a soccer show on TV. I have no idea about soccer, but now I'm kind of into that. Well, I was commentating tennis. I just was practicing, going to ‑‑ I had a great life. I don't know why I'm here (laughing).

wow roflmao

oh myskina, i hope you can get it together :D

Q. I don't know if you addressed this in the beginning of the press conference, but what happened at the start of the second set there?

SERENA WILLIAMS: I pretty much went crazy.

Serena roflmao

There was another one by Venus when she was asked about what shoes she was wearing and why they were different from last year. She said "I can't remeber what I wore last year, I don't even know where they came from this year either, they just showed up" :lol:

French Open quotes of the day - Thursday, 31 May 2007


"I feel terrible. I feel like a cow on ice."
Maria Sharapova assesses her clay-court form

"I got to go to the grocery store and I had to cook my own breakfast and my lunch. The first time I went to the store, I was absolutely lost. Now I've got it under control. I know where the vegetables are, where my favorite cheese is, I've got it all going."
Maria Sharapova discovers the joys of normal life during her injury lay-off

"I always go to the same hotel, but that's it. As for restaurants, I like the restaurants not far from the hotel."
Rafael Nadal on whether he has any superstitions at Grand Slams

"He said I'm a pain in the neck. But he is. He just doesn't accept anything. So I'm going to apply sanctions because he broke my remote control, and I'm just left with my Playstation."
Nadal won't forgive Carlos Moya for breaking his remote control

"Everybody makes fun of me because of that, but yesterday I was a bit embarrassed. I was bouncing the ball, and then I had a bad bounce, and the ball went away, and everybody smiled."
Novak Djokovic after being quizzed on why he bounces the ball up to 15 times before serving

"Why'd you leave the match, huh?"
A playful Lleyton Hewitt after a journalist confesses he left the match shortly before the Aussie started his comeback from two sets down
"That's awesome. That's so sweet. I know the feeling because I loved Monica Seles, so whenever I got a chance to play her, I was just still really excited. It's just kind of strange to be in the opposite position."
Serena Williams after being told her next opponent Michaella Krajicek used to idolise her

"If you can beat me, you can hit with me."
Serena on how she picks her hitting partners. That pretty much eliminates all female players

"To be honest with you, I grew up in the hood, and any court is a good court to me."
Serena, after being told the Australian Open will be putting a new surface down

Thanks for those roflmao the Maria ones in Particular were hilarous I hadn't read those :bow:

:ok:

A cow on Ice. roflmao

I know roflmao She has put on a little weight though hasn't she :unsure: Perhaps she's trying to bulk up....

Serena! roflmao roflmao :clap:

She always makes me smile :lol:

' if you beat me, you can play with me'

Not a lot of women can be invited to practise then Serena? roflmao

In Nottingham they call bread rolls cobs and say sweating cobs too. When my mum once said 'I'm sweating cobs" my sis said 'cheese and onion or ham?" and mum was nto happy! :lol:

Thank God for that cos I just spammed it up again! roflmao

Yeah good quotes TJ :ok:

A cow on ice cracked me up! roflmao And poor Maria had to cook her own brekkie and diddums to Nadal cos Moya broke his remote controls! roflmao

That Moya! What a cheek roflmao

Or 'Moyini' as he seems to be known to some :)

http://www.atptennis.com/1/en/blog/nadal.asp

French Open day six quotes

Venus committed more than 50 errors against Jankovic
"I just went long, long, long but it's only a matter of time before it goes in, in, in."
Venus Williams stays positive after 52 errors contribute to her defeat against Jelena Jankovic

"No answer. I answered it so many times. It's impossible to answer."
A rather tetchy Roger Federer after being asked whether he'd rather win at the French Open or Wimbledon.

"Uruguay, OK. You're killing me. This means a lot; Wimbledon as well."
Federer relents, sort of, when he is asked to answer it one more time "for Uruguay"

"Kuznetsova. I like her game; she plays well."
Federer's tip for the women's title

"We'll see what happens."
Mikhail Youzhny doesn't appear to be brimming with confidence ahead of facing Federer

"I did everything I could. He has no weaknesses in his game."
Think Edouard Roger-Vasselin is waxing lyrical about Federer here? Think again, he is of course talking about Argentina's Juan Monaco

"She's my wife, not my girlfriend. Maybe for her it is better. For me, she's still the same girl, just my wife."
The ever-romantic Nikolay Davydenko after being asked how marriage has changed him

"It's an important day. I'm 25, that's a quarter of a century. I've had a busy life so far but I've loved every minute of it."
Justine Henin appreciates a chant of "Happy Birthday" from the Centre Court crowd before cruising past Mara Santangelo

Pretty much right Venus :lol:

Thank god grass is coming so it will go in, in, in :lol:

"It's amazing. I'm very happy."
Lucie Safarova after being told she has "ruined" Amelie Mauresmo's season

pmsl :lmaao: :lmaao: :lmaao:

Sorry, SW; I'm going to muck up your quotes thread again.

Sweating cobs is a new one on me, so I looked up "cob" in the New Oxford Dictionary of English. The only meaning I knew for it was as in corn on the cob / a cob of corn.

But it also means: a loaf of bread (OK, I gathered that from what SB was saying); hazelnut (large variety); powerfully built, short-legged horse; male sawn: a roundish lump of coal.

So which of THEM is one sweating if one sweats cobs?

Sorry again, SW :pray:

Oops, typo!

I meant :male swan

Hey Scolios :hug: I didn't realise cobs would be such an interesting conversation :lol: I'd never heard of cob apart from corn on the cob either :)

I say it all the time up north :lol:

It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Teresa at the same time and that's just the way it is."
Unlike Maria Sharapova, Mother Teresa was never booed by fans in the Suzanne Lenglen Court for perceived gamesmanship

"I've got enough shirts for five-set matches in the bag."
Roger Federer remains the consummate professional despite a record-equalling 11 consecutive straight-sets wins in Grand Slam events

"If I can win in three sets so much the better but I'm not looking for these types of records."
Even Federer is getting bored by all his record achievements

"Everyone sees me as the favourite, but I disagree with that. We will all eight be favourites."
Justine Henin hedges her bets as to who will progress from the French Open quarter-finals

"I'm negotiating for him to stay. Emmanuel is lucky for me. He's more and more interested, and even sometimes puts pressure on me, because he says, 'Tin Tin,' - that's what he calls me - 'You must win'."
Henin wants her lucky charm Emmanuel Rodriguez, the eight-year-old son of her coach Carlos, to miss school and watch her in the last eight

"Shh, shh. This is something I don't want to talk about."
Henin, when reminded that she has never lost a match with Emmanuel watching

"The only person that you can count on is you and your family."
Serena Williams reveals that counting may not be her strong suit

as per usual, the women talk a good game.

The BBC are always so sarcastic, especially the Sharapova one roflmao

"The next morning, it can be tough to get the socks on."
Jonas Bjorkman on the downside of playing top-level tennis at the age of 35 roflmao


"I haven't come here with the goal of winning the tournament."
Novak Djokovic must be getting worried now he's into the last eight

"In general, he can improve on a lot of things."
Djokovic assesses world number one and 10-times Grand Slam winner Roger Federer

"I don't think he learned anything from me. And if he did, he did it much better than me so..."
Carlos Moya on fellow Spaniard Rafael Nadal