Sports: Quotes of the week

AFP Sports' top quotes of the week:

"I was going to run a bath for the girls. I made a very simple movement, turned back, heard a click in my knee. It was a very simple movement, one I've done a million times."

- Roger Federer explains how bath time with his children led to him injuring his knee so badly that he needed surgery.

"If I was a lady player, I'd go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born, because they have carried this sport."

- Indian Wells ATP and WTA tournament director Ray Moore.

"Obviously, I don't think any woman should be down on their knees thanking anybody like that."

- Serena Williams hitting back at Moore, who later apologised for his remarks and resigned.

"Women go through a lot of different things that we (men) don't have to go through. You know, the hormones and different stuff."

- Novak Djokovic becoming embroiled in the equal prize money controversy which dogged tennis all week.

"He was talking about our monthly situation. Like it was the dark ages."

- Tennis legend Billie Jean King hits back at Djokovic.

"I am just pushing a mountain."

- Egyptian squash star Ramy Ashour on his ongoing injury battles.

"Now we have another two weeks to wait to play our next game to let stupid Football Associations make money from friendlies."

- Sunderland boss Sam Allardyce on his frustration at the international break.

"I don't like to look for excuses. I'm happy that we are premium, we play at four o'clock and they see us in China."

- Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone frustrated that his side had to play a La Liga game a day before title rivals Barcelona and Real Madrid despite all three teams having had midweek Champions League matches.

"Pretty crap."

- F1 commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone after the newlook qualifying system was widely panned at the Australian Grand Prix.

"On one occasion when I was 16 I did a road race and won. The athlete who won the men's race won a TV -- and I won a table lamp."

- British marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe on her early days of prize inequality in athletics.

"A husband, a father, a grandfather. We will miss you like crazy, it will be hard but I hope we will make you proud."

- Jordi Cruyff on his father, Dutch legend Johan Cruyff who died on Thursday after a battle with lung cancer.
Source: AFP