By the time he bowed out with the sound bite "I came into sport on top and I want to leave that way" in 2001, his place in the history books was sealed.

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"It's up to us to come out of this affair and show everyone that we do see this as a crisis but also as an opportunity, because there is a danger that it could have a fatal effect on the sport, and I don't want that to happen, " McQuaid added.

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"I have had a thumping but I don't want people to be put off watching sport, " said Mr Ferguson, who is taking a break from his job as a television locations manager to follow the British and Irish Lions rugby tour.

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"I want to regain my rightful throne, " Maccarinelli told BBC Sport.

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"It's a good place to start and where I really want to run fast is Beijing, " Radcliffe told BBC Sport.

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"I want to leave the club, " he told Russia's Sport Express newspaper.

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"It's very disappointing, but I want to congratulate Barnsley because they played very well, " he told BBC Sport.

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"I want to be fighting for world titles at both weights, " Cook told BBC Sport.

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"I am in England on official business on behalf of the Association but I would not want to go into the specifics of our plans, " Ogunjobi told the BBC Sport website.

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