Waddell Quotes

#1. When (Rube) Waddell
had control and some sleep, he was unbeatable.

Branch Rickey

#2. One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time

Sid Waddell

#3. The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!

Sid Waddell

#4. It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.

Helen Waddell

#5. I'm never quite as excited as people think because with my voice, when I shout, I squeak.

Sid Waddell

#6. That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

Sid Waddell

#7. For ... austere and gracious allegory, as for so much of its mysticism and its chivalry, its ardours and its endurances, the world is in debt to Spain.

Helen Waddell

#8. Shipwreck in youth is sorrowful enough, but one looks for storms at the spring equinox. Yet it is the September equinox that drowns.

Helen Waddell

#9. Keith Deller's not just an underdog, he's an underpuppy!

Sid Waddell

#10. When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.

Sid Waddell

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

Sid Waddell

#12. Steve Beaton, he's not Adonis, he's THE donis.

Sid Waddell

#13. Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

Helen Waddell

#14. He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave.

Sid Waddell

#15. That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!

Sid Waddell

#16. 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.

Sid Waddell

#17. Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint.

Sid Waddell

#18. The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips ... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them.

Sid Waddell

#19. Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off.

Helen Waddell

#20. I'm the world's worst after-dinner speaker. I need pictures to respond to. I was the voice of the lottery balls once and got the sack.

Sid Waddell

#21. Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.

Sid Waddell

#22. Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train!

Sid Waddell

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

Sid Waddell

#24. He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed.

Sid Waddell

#25. The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore "the giant agony of the world" and live, except indeed the mollusc life, a barnacle upon eternity.

Helen Waddell

#26. Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts orbit!

Sid Waddell

#27. But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind?

Helen Waddell

#28. Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax.

Sid Waddell

#29. 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.

Sid Waddell

#30. Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.

Sid Waddell

#31. He's as cool as a prized marrow!

Sid Waddell

#32. wow this was a good book

Patricia Waddell

#33. Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy.

Sid Waddell

#34. Love is Short, Remembering is long

Jack Waddell

#35. Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

Sid Waddell

#36. I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box.

Sid Waddell

#37. William Tell could take an apple off your head, [Phil] Taylor could take out a processed pea.

Sid Waddell

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

Sid Waddell

#39. You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.

Sid Waddell

#40. 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.

Sid Waddell

#41. Was there no one over thirty-five who had not some secret agony, some white-faced fear? Half one's life one walked carelessly, certain that some day one would have one's heart's desire: and for the rest of it, one either goes empty, or walks carrying a full cup, afraid of every step.

Helen Waddell

#42. When I see Steve Davis I see two letters ... C S ... Cue Sorceror.

Sid Waddell

#43. It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.

Sid Waddell

#44. At various points, I've had a massive chip on me shoulder. I had fights about me accent with loads of those fellers you get from third-class public schools. They used to think I was speaking German.

Sid Waddell