Rampaging Roy Slaven has always stepped up to the next level. No matter what was on the agenda: rugby league, horse racing, pig shooting or the lewd Roy always went for a podium finish.

A few This Sporting Life fans have written a few words about Roy:

· A lanky youth who grew up on the shores of the great Farmers Creek. He rose thru the ranks of the local school system under the protective wing of the La Salle Brothers, guided in the art of football. He became the hero of the town and inspiration for the new lithgow.com town logo "NSW first learning city". Remember the lessons your mother, Willamina taught you. "Win the fight and you win the match"
from: Kieran

· Boyish good looks which have stood the testament of time have been a curse for the Ramper. Classmates avoid school reunions so their wives can't meet him. Little do they know that their little ladies' sudden active interest in sport is generated by someone far more intelligent than Wendall and far better looking than ET.
from: Joh King

· A man of such varied talents that even the Mitchell library is lost for the as-yet-unused adjective. One of the few people who can walk it like they talk it and still edit their own copy. Available to many, but still in a genre all of his own.
from: sharkuss

· Roy digs into the topic and sort of runs with it. He goes deeper than the subject matter of fact and roots around in the intestine to see exactly what has been consumed in comparison to whatever subject is spewing forth from which ever orifice.
from: curly

· Whether he's chewin the fat about the balls and the bat, Slaven is clean shaven on the in outs of the corporate teams' ducks bum.
from: Charmaine

· I'll never forget the social doubles game that I stumbled upon a couple of years ago, on one of the outside courts at the All-England club. The Rampaging One playing with 'Muscles' Kenny Rosewall versus The Newk and 'Rocket' Rod Laver. Roy's lunging backhand down-the-line finished the clash just in time for the foursome, and my good self to nip off to the nearest watering hole and have a couple of quiet pints while Roy replayed his backhand over and over.
from: Raddles

· A man whose many career highlights include massaging Michael Voss's Groin before the 2001 AFL Grandfinal, teaching Matt Burke how to build up enough bladder pressure to dent the trough, and beating a 12 year old Leyton Hewitt on an bitumen court in Wagga!
from: Rexamillion Maximus