Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.

We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.

London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.