'I like to think I come over as a slightly over-the-top enthusiast. It is a very exciting sport after all'

'I am inclined to go over the top and I know it. I am communicating an electric situation'

[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 can spin himself stat…

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