Quote #82

'The atmosphere is so tense you could cut it with a cricket stump'

More from Murray Walker

  1. 'And now the boot is on the other Schumacher'
  2. 'Alain Prost is in a commanding second place'
  3. 'An Achilles heel for the McLaren team this year, and it's literally the heel because it's the gearbox'
  4. 'Now the Frenchman Jacques Lafitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Lafitte.'
  5. 'Nigel Mansell - the man of the race - the man of the day - the man from the Isle of Man'
  6. 'I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong' [Murray on his style of commentary]
  7. 'A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play' [The long-standing rumour that Murray actually wrote this legendary slogan is completely false…
  8. 'I am inclined to go over the top and I know it. I am communicating an electric situation'

All Murray Walker quotes