From Edmund Hillary’s famous, “Well, we knocked the bastard off,” to Ian Kirkpatrick’s comment, “You never beat Wales, you just score more points than them,” this collection of quotes gives a vivid and often hilarious overview of some of our most celebrated and denigrated moments in recent sporting history. Top New Zealand sports journalist and Listener columnist Joseph Romanos has compiled some of the witty, observant, abrasive, and extraordinary remarks made by Kiwi’s involved in all the fields of sports for this entertaining commentary on major sporting events. A collection of quotations about sports events involving New Zealanders. Some are witty, some trenchant, and those quoted include John Walker, David Lange, as well as Sir Edmund Hillary, who made the comment chosen as the title when he had climbed Everest.
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