FACTBOX - London Mayor Boris Johnson in his own words

LONDON (Reuters) - Here is a collection of quotes by Boris Johnson, 43, who was elected London's new mayor on Friday:

ON HIS CHANCES OF LEADING THE COUNTRY

"My chances of being prime minister are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."

AFTER BEING SACKED FROM THE CONSERVATIVE FRONT BENCH

"My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."

ON THE 2005 CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADERSHIP CONTEST

"I'm supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

ON FORMER PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR

"It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall."

ON DRUGS

"What is my view on drugs? I've forgotten my view on drugs."

ON PARTY POLITICS

"For 10 years we in the Tory Party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing, and so it is with a happy amazement that we watch as the madness engulfs the Labour Party."

ON TENNIS

"I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around."

ON SCHOOL DINNERS

"I say let people eat what they like. Why shouldn't they push pie through the railings."

ON SPECULATION ABOUT HIS LOVE LIFE

"Pyramid of piffle."

ON TRAIN TRAVEL IN BRITAIN

"To rely on a train in Blair's Britain is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil."

ON HIS CONSTITUENTS

"The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP (member of parliament) they have run out of better ideas."

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