From NY times live coverage of the Denmark-NL game:

Love this headline from the New York Post

Not a quote but a little word play fail :
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Nicky Campbell on BBC 5 live this morning, after trying to blow a Vuvuzela:

"When I blow it, sometimes I'm like Louis Armstrong; sometimes I'm like Louis from Pineapple Dance Studios"

From French coach Raymond Domenech:

''We should still be proud enough to look forward to winning our next match. There is still an infinitesimally small chance that we will go through.''



From Oxford English Dictionary:
2. In loose or hyperbolical use (cf. A. 3): Too small to be measured or reckoned; extremely minute or insignificant.


From The Princess Bride:
"You keep saying that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."




(ok, I'll leave that expired equine be now)

Well, OK, it's not World Cup, it's Wimbledon, but still:

BBC commentator on John Isner:
'For a very big man he's got very soft hands.'

Indeed.

"Once he opens those legs he shows he can be a handful" - ITV's Craig Burley points out that at least Djibril Cisse has something to be pleased about despite the French shambles"