Grow up, teach your children to behave. What's wrong with you? How old are you?

John McCririck was a fearless investigative journalist. He was also loud, brash and never short of a put down. Here are some of his best (or worst) lines from more than three decades on television . . .

The actual punters, they've bought you, they own you, they've backed you, they've employed you to go and win for them. Does that get you down?
To Ruby Walsh on punters backing him

Sometimes on racecourses I wish the public would let me get on with my job. I always say there's only one moron allowed on TV and that's me, not you lot. When you're washing your windscreens at traffic lights do I interrupt you?
On racegoers

You go away, you nasty little toe rag.
To a punter in the betting ring

Grow up, teach your children to behave. What's wrong with you? How old are you? You're 55 and look at you.
To another punter in the betting ring

They shame the north-west, these people.
At Aintree

Take a look at some of these people. They make themselves look like buffoons to simply get on telly.
On punters again

What on earth are you doing?
To a punter dressed like McCririck for his stag do

As long as the partner doesn't know, what's wrong with it? If you have a fling or two, so what?
On cheating

I was devastated, I've worked 29 years for Channel 4, 5,000 hours of live broadcasting, 20,000 hours of preparing for the programmes and no one came to me and said, 'Look John we don't like your style or don't say this or don't do that, what ideas have you got?' Nothing, they just sack you.
On his Channel 4 sacking

You're a potential murderess, you are.
On Good Morning Britain in a debate on greyhound racing

They know what a rat that I am, and they voted me out. Thank goodness.
On being voted out of Big Brother

He knew his audience, knew what they wanted and knew how to give it to them