Weekend - Cath Tizard, Mayor of Auckland

Is tourism the primary advantage in hosting the games?

– Journalist Terry Carter to Tizard

I would hope that we’re not going to be, on the one hand, encouraging young people into a healthy lifestyle, and at the same time promoting a way of life that is demonstrably unhealthy.

– Tizard on alcohol and tobacco sponsorship in sport

It won’t help.

– Tizard, on how a prospective All Blacks tour to South Africa will impact the Games' preparation

It’s time enough, providing we get cracking!

– Tizard on the 2000 days to the Commonwealth Games’ kick-off 

I hope we’ll have as much pride as the Americans had, but I don’t think it’ll be done in quite the same way. It’s not our style to let everything hang out …

– Tizard on how Kiwis will run the Commonwealth Games compared to how the Americans ran the recent Olympics