Sid Waddell Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.”

“The thing with darts players is they have always appeared available. They don't have to live like monks. I've only ever met one dry player in 35 years.”

“There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions.”

“The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!”

“Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.”

“He's as cool as a prized marrow!”

“Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter.”

“It's a form of mental and verbal gymnastics, and one of the things that appeals to me most about commenting on darts is that no one knows exactly what I'm going to come out with next - and neither do I.”

“The thing about darts is that you've got to shout. It's not like cricket where you can talk to Michael Atherton and ask him to analyse the bloody nuances. Darts does not have nuances. You've got to hurl yourself at it.”

“I talk fast because I'm asthmatic, and I'm desperately hoping the words get out before my breath fails.”