Sports Speak:

"Nice guy image? Me, I'm the baby-faced assassin."

"Nice guy image? Me, I'm the baby-faced assassin."

- Fergal O'Brien after he beat Steven Lee for a place in the quarter-finals.

"WHAT?"

- Joe Swail when asked to tell the media about his hearing difficulties.

"If Manchester United make a problem of all this, I will take him back to PSV immediately. The fans never wanted to lose him, and neither did we."

- PSV Eindhoven president Harry Van Raay responding to the doubts about Ruud Van Nistelrooy's transfer.

  • Join The Irish Times on WhatsApp and stay up to date

  • What’s making headlines in the rugby world? Listen to The Counter Ruck podcast with Nathan Johns

  • Sign up for push alerts to get the best breaking news, analysis and comment delivered to your phone