CRAZY GOLF & BADASS ACADEMICS

Here are the best sporting quotes of 2025

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ATHLETICS

"You can be an academic bad ass and a track goddess." Cambridge graduate Amy Hunt after sealing "sexy and aggressive" 200m silver medal at the World Championship.

CRICKET

"There are quite a few factors that go into why we can't prepare how the has-beens maybe prepared in the past." England captain Ben Stokes had the likes of Sir Ian Botham and Michael Vaughan in his sights before the Ashes.

"It's like if Tiger Woods goes to the Masters and says he's prepared by going on the crazy golf and got a couple of shots through the windmill." Vaughan doubled down after the first Test drubbing Down Under.

DARTS

"I'm 35, he's 17. Every 17 years, a star gets born." Michael van Gerwen lost the World Championship final to teenager Luke Littler.

"Get innnn, first time and O minors." Littler passed his driving test, after failing the theory test six times.

FOOTBALL