Richard Caborn Quotations

The covenant stops you from building sports facilities, which I said is not very helpful,

We have had the pantomime. Let's now have the serious stuff.

Whatever the surplus the clubs will save as a consequence of a salary cap, what better way to use the extra money than to give some of it back to their fans.

I think it's an important step forward for women's sport. The Open really is now truly open. I think the R&A has listened to what people think and I'm very pleased they are changing the rules.

I was down at the Oval on Friday and I said if you want to come and see me, then fine.

We are investing a quarter of a billion pounds between now and the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

The government has been discussing with the FA for some time the feasibility ... but we are a long way off still, ... It is the same process as we went through before deciding to go ahead with London's Olympic bid, looking at what we ought to be presenting to the government about whether this country bids or not.

Every young footballer can remember watching their hero play and wanting to emulate them on the park or the school playground, ... I'd now like to see the chairmen of all football clubs back the football authorities in their desire to clean up the game.

The slate has been wiped clean and every local authority will have their chance to make its case.

Football has something to learn from cricket: respect for officials, for each other as professionals and for the opponents.

The best way here for all parties is to have an agreement and I'm hopeful that will happen in the next 24 hours.

It's time for the game to take bold steps toward better governance, and a Europe-wide solution is the only answer. There needs to be a control of the excesses that are out there and further use of football in a wider social context.

I hope now that in the longer term they will give authority to the fourth official to suspend matches where there is racist abuse of the type we witnessed in Madrid, and if the chanting continues then to abandon games altogether.

I am making no bones about it. I am supporting the ECB in what it has done,

a great day for the future of the motor industry in the UK.

All the evidence we have says foreign nationals brought in to play have actually enhanced teams and indeed some would argue it has enhanced our national teams too,

Obviously, like Wembley is synonymous with tennis, snooker is synonymous with Sheffield.