Have you seen the Louvre a lot while you've been here? - BBC presenter Des Lynam to panellist Ally McCoist in Paris

I have . . . I was bursting earlier on, I can tell you. - McCoist

Tonight, again, the strong and arrogant opponent felt the bitter taste of defeat at your hands. Be happy that you have made the Iranian nation happy. - Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a message to the national soccer squad after it defeated the US

The only bad part of the game is that we lost. - US State Department spokesman James Rubin

There's only one team going to win now and that's England. Romania will be delighted with a draw now. I hope I'm not tempting providence. - Kevin Keegan 85 minutes into the game

We made possible what seemed impossible - turning defeat into a near victory. - German coach Berti Vogts on the draw with Yugoslavia

I would rather have lost the match against Yugoslavia on Sunday if it would have meant this police officer remaining in good health. - Vogts, after he learned of the violence that left a policeman, Daniel Nivel, in a coma

I have yet to see a country without original sin, where there isn't electoral abuse, or bribery and corruption for that matter. - The chief electoral officer for Northern Ireland, Pat Bradley

The day of the dinosaurs is over. The future belongs to the bridge-builders, not the wreckers. - The President, Mrs McAleese, on the Northern Ireland Assembly election

We have learned since then that they put a plastic bag over her head and she suffocated. - Helen McKendry, on the IRA decision to identify the secret burial site of her mother, Jean McConville, who was abducted and murdered by the organisation in 1972

I don't know much about money as my bank manager and accountant will tell you. - Sarah, Duchess of York, asked for her views on European monetary union

There is a confusion of harmless flirting with the serious problem of sexual harassment. The solution is not to ban flirting but to educate men to be better at it. - Kate Fox, director of the Social Issues Research Centre in Oxford

I feel I've lost the right to look at a child . . . and I do feel the stigma. - Louise Woodward, the former British au pair convicted of the manslaughter of baby Matthew Eappen, in a BBC interview

One thing is for certain - he will be forever a pariah within the community. - Judge Cyril Kelly, after he jailed for six years Dublin priest, Ivan Payne, for sexual abuse of boys

Those in the comfortable capitals who like war games should be more modest . . . enough blood has been spilled [in the Balkans] from their amateurism. - Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos, warning against NATO military action against Yugoslavia to end the conflict in Kosovo

He was one of the pioneers in his generation of a deeper engagement by the United States and by Irish-America in resolving the conflict in Northern Ireland. - The Taoiseach on Paul O'Dwyer, a leading New York Democrat, who has died

If you were Frank Sinatra's friend, he was a friend for life. If you were his enemy, you stayed his enemy. Case closed. - Singer Tony Bennett

Rarely do any words of mine make the sayings of the week. - British Labour Party MP Joe Ashton