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Murray Walker Quotes

After active service in World War II and a successful career in advertising, Murray Walker became a sports commentator in 1949. Over the next 52 years, he made a name for himself with his commentating on motor racing, particularly Formula 1. His catch-phrase, "Unless I'm very much mistaken -- and I AM very much mistaken!" was the leader of a pack of quotable lines from Walker's commentating. Many of them were verbal blunders of some kind; he specialized, it seemed, in putting one person in two different places at the same time.

"Unless I'm very much mistaken -- I AM very much mistaken!"
"Look up there! That's the sky!"
"Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position."
"And this is the third place car about to lap the second place car."
"This is an interesting circuit, because it has inclines. And not just up, but down as well."
"And there's the man in the green flag!"
"That's the first time he had started from the front row in a Grand Prix, having done so in Canada earlier this year."
"And he's lost both right front tires."
"Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin. Unless this is the action, which it is."
"And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself."
"Mansell can see him in his earphone."
"Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does."
"Alboreto has dropped back up to fifth place."
"As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth."
"Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough?"
"I can't imagine what kind of problem Senna has. I imagine it must be some sort of grip problem."
"I know it's an old cliche, but you can cut the atmosphere with a cricket stump."
"Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place."
"The lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact, it's just under 7 seconds."
"Tambay's hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now."
"This has been a great season for Nelson Piquet, as he is now known, and always has been."
"And the first five places are filled by five different cars."
"As you can see, visually, with your eyes."
"And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill."
"Michael Schumacher is leading Michael Schumacher."
"Jacques Lafitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Lafitte."
"Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th."
"Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve."
"Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen."
"Ferrari leads, McLaren second, McLaren second, Jordan third, and Benneton fifth and sixth."
"Schumacher has made his final stop three times."
"Mansell is slowing it down, taking it easy. Oh, no he isn't! It's a lap record."
"And he's done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures."
"Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him."
"And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over."
"It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way."
"Let's stop the startwatch."
"That's history. I say history because it happened in the past."
"And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race."
"I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one."
"Rally points scoring is twenty for the fastest, eighteen for the second fastest, right down to six points for the slowest fastest."
"I was there when I said it."
"Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th."
"The European drivers have adapted to this circuit extremely quickly, especially Paul Radisich who's a New Zealander."
"Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it."
"The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick."
"You might not think that's cricket, and it's not. It's motor racing."

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