Ireland Quotes

[Playing alongside Morrison for Ireland could prove easier than keeping Morrison quiet this season.] I thing that's a bit hard... Nobody can keep Clinton quiet. But he's a great addition to the squad, he's bubbly and lively around the place and that's what we need as well. - Jon Macken

[Patricia Ireland, President of the National Organization for Women, also on the ground at Kennedy Space Center, sighed when I asked her about the convergence of the two events.] It has the potential to diminish the excitement ... And, at the same time, it reminds us that progress must go on. That it is bigger than any one connection to the past. - Patricia Ireland

[Mowbray is a great football thinker but he does ask a lot of his players to remain on his wavelength.] I sat and watched Sven-G??ran Eriksson getting grilled about formations after the Northern Ireland game, ... I said to my team before kick-off that playing a lone striker at home against Dundee United could lead to criticism and if we didn't win I could be sitting on a sofa like Sven next week. - Tony Mowbray

[London and Dublin responded to the news with relief on Monday, rather than the exuberant proclamations that greeted the IRA's statement in July.] The true importance of today is that these weapons can never again be used to inflict suffering and create more victims... an important step in the transition from conflict to peace in Northern Ireland. - Tony Blair

[In Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, police said 7,500 homes were damaged or destroyed -- half of its 15,000 single- family residences.] It looks like a bomb hit here... Houses are just leveled. It looks like a battlefield. - John Ireland

[Even the notoriously hard-to-impress Americans were in awe of Fisher during the recent Walker Cup in Chicago, where he remained unbeaten in singles. Great Britain and Ireland may have lost the contest by the agonising margin of 14½-13½ but Chigwell's finest announced his status as a superstar-in-waiting by birdying four of the last five holes to defeat the vastly experienced Michael Putnam on the opening afternoon.] Unbelievable... Oh, how I would love to have 10 per cent of Oli's future earnings. - Michael Putnam

[DUBLIN, Ireland ?] I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does, ... Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't. - Brian Kenny

. . . I saw people willing to compromise themselves, or change themselves, to acquire what they thought was important. I don't judge what other people do, many choices that may be right for others are definitely not right for me. - Kathy Ireland