Waddell Quotes & Sayings

Steve Beaton, he's not Adonis, he's THE donis. — Sid Waddell

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

Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out. — Sid Waddell

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

William Tell could take an apple off your head, [Phil] Taylor could take out a processed pea. — Sid Waddell

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

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

Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint. — Sid Waddell

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

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

There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians to the Lions. — Sid Waddell

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

That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble! — Sid Waddell

Keith Deller's not just an underdog, he's an underpuppy! — Sid Waddell

That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus. — Sid Waddell

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

He's as cool as a prized marrow! — Sid Waddell

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

I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy's screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy's chatting about Alexander the Great. I'm after pulling in, whether it's in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience. — Sid Waddell

He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave. — Sid Waddell

Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts orbit! — Sid Waddell

It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline. — Sid Waddell

In jargon nobody ever does anything, feels anything, or causes anything; nobody has an opinion. Opinions are had; causes result in; factors affect. Everything is reduced to vague abstraction. The writer can even abolish himself, for jargon never sounds as though anybody had written it; it seems simply to come about, as from a machine, and it talks mechanically of things that come about, through some indistinct interaction of forces." - Robert Waddell, "Formal Prose and Jargon," in Modern Essays on Writing and Style 84, 89 (Paul C. Wermuth ed., 1964). — Bryan A. Garner

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

He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed. — Sid Waddell

Love is Short, Remembering is long — Jack Waddell

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

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

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

Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water-buffalo with a pea-shooter. — Sid Waddell

I'm never quite as excited as people think because with my voice, when I shout, I squeak. — Sid Waddell

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

When I see Steve Davis I see two letters ... C S ... Cue Sorceror. — Sid Waddell

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

But what was the desire of the flesh beside the desire of the mind? — Helen Waddell

One hundred and eighty, divided by three, is one dart at a time — Sid Waddell

You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player. — Sid Waddell

Truth has as many coats as an onion ... and each one of them hollow when you peel it off. — Helen Waddell

Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a choo-choo train! — Sid Waddell

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength. — Sid Waddell

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily. — Sid Waddell

wow this was a good book — Patricia Waddell

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

When (Rube) Waddell
had control and some sleep, he was unbeatable. — Branch Rickey

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

Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals. — Sid Waddell

The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there! — Sid Waddell