Boom Time

•Miguel Angel Martín named his baby daughter Macarena, but he missed the big dance when he was kicked off the European Ryder Cup team because of a wrist injury.

You Don't Say

Chicago Bulls fan Jeff Sluman on L the gaudy conquistador helmet L he received for winning the Tucson Chrysler Classic: "Dennis Rodman might want it."

President Clinton during Bob Hope's 94th-birthday television special: "If you ever go to Greg Norman's house, use the elevator."

Davis Love III after going 0-4 at the Ryder Cup: "I'd love to be the captain, but I don't think I'd get a whole lot of votes right now."

Norman on Tiger Woods's taking the spotlight: "I love being in the backseat. I am not one who seeks the limelight." (Norman later agreed to drive the pace car at next year's Indy 500.)

John Daly on the acres of sand bunkers at the remodeled Blue Monster course at Doral: "I feel like I should take my shirt off when I play here."

Seve Ballesteros on the legal action threatened by Miguel Angel Martin after he was dropped from the European Ryder Cup team: "He's like a kamikaze aiming for the ship."

Peter Thomson, on being given an Ambassador of Golf award at the World Series of Golf: "There must be more deserving people than me...but they might be dead."

Tour veteran Jeff Maggert, a frequent runner-up: "If I can win as many tournaments as I've finished second in, I'm going to have a hell of a career."