Dropped or rested?

"Any time you're out of the Australian cricket team I think you're dropped. You give another guy an opportunity to take your spot."
Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin refutes selectors' claims he is being rested from the start of the one-day series.

"As far as the selectors are concerned he hasn't been dropped from the Australian team and be forced to win his place back."
Chairman of selectors John Inverarity stands by the panel's claim that Haddin is just being rested.

"If you're not good enough to be in the team, well you're clearly not good enough to be captain of your country."
Cameron White knows he has some work to do before he can get back into the Australian T20 team.

"Lewis is a coward. I don't want to be friends with someone like that."
Former Formula One driver Adrian Sutil was less than impressed when former friend Lewis Hamilton failed to appear as a witness at his trial for glassing an F1 team boss.

"It will give me the time to fully focus on my health and family."
Jim Stynes explains why he had to stand down as Melbourne Football Club president.

"Jim's remarkable leadership skills and courage under immense pressure has seen our club become united… he has been an inspiration to the whole club."
New Melbourne president Don McLardy pays tribute to what Stynes was able to achieve in his time at the helm.

"Good morning everybody."
Rafael Nadal didn't lose his sense of humour after battling Novak Djokovic for nearly six hours in the Australian Open final.

"We made history tonight and unfortunately there couldn't be two winners. I hope we have many more matches like this."
Djokovic enjoyed the titanic battle so much he wants all of his future matches with Nadal to go five sets.

"I have a big problem. I can't write... I can't work a computer, I don't know what an email is, I've never sent a fax and I've never sent a text message. I've never wrote a letter in my life. I write like a two-year-old and I can't spell. I couldn't even fill a team sheet in."
Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp makes an astounding admission during his court case for tax evasion.

"There is no doubt in my mind that in the next 10 years we have an openly gay footballer. My only fear is that certain managers and individuals within the game will discriminate against people. These archaic figures think if they had a gay footballer, they would have all kinds of shenanigans going on in the dressing room. That's not the case. As I say it's more fool them and their lack of social awareness and intelligence."
QPR footballer Joey Barton proves himself to be more of an adult than Margaret Court and Jason Akermanis.

"To be part of history is like a miracle. It is not something you can have by clicking your fingers. My driver and iron play were probably the nicest to me over the past two days. I also putted well, but I was in good position on most of the greens because I was able to make approaches from good places on the fairways."
New Zealand 14-year-old Lydia Ko after she became the youngest winner of a professional golf tournament after taking out the NSW Open.

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