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Came across these the other night. No doubt you\'ll have seen or heard most of them before BUT they are well worth reading, I\'m still grinning as I type.
They\'re named after David Coleman who was not adverse to the occasional cock-up and a couple of his best have been included. I saved my favourite one from him until last.
\"This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.\" (Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator)
\"Well , either side could win it, or it could be a draw.\" (Ron Atkinson)
\"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.\' (David Acfield)
\"What will you do when you leave football, Jack - will you stay in football?\" (Stuart Hall - Radio 5 live )
\"There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class\" (David Coleman at The Montreal Olympics)
\"...and Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavillion.\" (John Arlott)
\"One of the reasons Arnie (Arnold Palmer) is playing so well is that, before each tee-shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them. Oh my God, what have I just said?\" (USTV commentator)
\"Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago\" (David Coleman)
\"Once Tony Daley opens his legs you\'ve got a problem\" (Howard Wilkinson)
\"Its a great advantage to be able to hurdle with both legs\" (David Coleman)
\"After playing Cameroon in the 1990 world cup finals: \"We didn\'t underestimate them. They were a lot better than we thought\" (Bobby Robson)
On the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living in Italy: \"It was like being in a foreign country\" (Ian Rush)
\"Bill Frindal has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator\" (John Arlott)
\"Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand. \" (Ted Lowe)
\"Ah! Isn\'t that nice, the wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew\" (Harry Carpenter, BBC TV Boat Race 1977)
\"We actually got the winner three minutes from the end but then they equalised\" (Ian McNail)
\"I never comment on referees and I\'m not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat\" (Ron Atkinson)
\"There\'s going to be a real ding-dong when the bell goes.\" (David Coleman)
\"There is Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20,000 people\" (David Coleman)
\"The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical\" (Murray Walker)
\"I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel\" (Stuart Pearce)
\"We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite\" (Murray Walker)
\"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father\" (Greg Norman)
\"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious\" (Alan Minter)
\"Watch the time -it gives you an indication of how fast they are running\" (Ron Pickering)
\"I\'ll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right\" (Marlon Starling)
\"If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again\" (Terry Venables)
\"Here we are in the Holy Land of Israel - a Mecca for tourists.\" David Vine, BBC
\"In a sense it\'s a one-man show... except there are two men involved,
Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.\" John Motson, BBC1
\"Julian Dicks is everywhere. It\'s like they\'ve got eleven Dicks on the field.\" Metro Radio
\"Morcelli has the four fastest 1500-metre times ever. And all those times are at 1500 metres.\" David Coleman, BBC1
Sydney Olympics: Event - Womens Weightlifting (clean and jerk)
David Coleman - \"And here\'s the favourite for the title. I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing\".
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