Quote #85

'I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong' [Murray on his style of commentary]

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  1. 'Now the Frenchman Jacques Lafitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Lafitte.'
  2. 'I am inclined to go over the top and I know it. I am communicating an electric situation'
  3. 'Alain Prost is in a commanding second place'
  4. 'I like to think I come over as a slightly over-the-top enthusiast. It is a very exciting sport after all'
  5. 'The atmosphere is so tense you could cut it with a cricket stump'
  6. [after Derek Warwick spun at Monaco ending up facing the wrong way...] 'Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he c…
  7. 'And now the boot is on the other Schumacher'
  8. [possibly Murray's most ecstatic moment when Mansell passed Senna to win in Hungary after starting well down the grid] 'He's going for it! …

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