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3 minutes ago, Major Isewater said:

We could all use a bit of diversion so how about some football quotes .

I love this one .

"Tell him he’s Pele and get him back on.” Partick Thistle manager John Lambie, when told his concussed striker did not know who he was

John Lambie - a huge hero of mine and a Thistle legend...lots of people have tried to take credit for that Pele quote but it was definitely John who said it .... RIP Boss...

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Sir Bobby Robson

“What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up the stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him, and without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.”

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18 minutes ago, Ska Junkie said:

Sir Bobby Robson

“What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up the stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him, and without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.”

Is there a Football fan in England who didn’t love Sir Bobby?

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"The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It's nothing of the kind.

The game is about glory. It's about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.'

 Danny Blanchflower, Tottenhams Double Winning captain

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1 minute ago, pongo88 said:

“When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea."

Was that Captain Birdseye?

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Ron Atkinson "He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces."

Terry Venables "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again." 

Keegan "They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that." 

Beckham "I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet."

Gazza "I never make predictions, and I never will." 

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Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals." - PETER WITHE

"I've been consistent in patches this season" - THEO WALCOTT

"In the end, Rosicky initially did well" - ANDY TOWNSEND

"The thing about goalscorers is that they score goals" - TONY COTTEE

"The last six games of the Invincibles season were the most pressurised, because we were under pressure" - RAY PARLOUR

"He's got a lot of self-belief in himself" - GRAHAM BEECROFT

"They were numerically outnumbered" - GARRY BIRTLES

"Not to win is guttering" - MARK NOBLE

"And with 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0." - IAN DARK

"I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way." - RON ATKINSON

"Certain people are for me and certain people are pro me." - TERRY VENABLES

"Reading won't have the confidence to be confident" - PAUL MERSON

"If we played like this every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent." - BRYAN ROBSON

"The one significant change is in fact the second significant change" - JONATHAN PEARCE

"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer." - DAVID ACFIELD

"Glenn Hoddle hasn't been the Hoddle we know. Neither has Bryan Robson." - RON GREENWOOD

"I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona." - KEVIN KEEGAN

"For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip." - JOHN MOTSON

"I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat." - RON ATKINSON

"I would not say he [David Ginola] is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better." - RON ATKINSON

"What will you do when you leave football, Jack -- will you stay in football?" - STUART HALL

"The new West Stand casts a giant shadow over the entire pitch, even on a sunny day." - CHRIS JONES

"You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals." - ALAN GREEN

"Matty Jarvis had acres of time there" - STAN COLLYMORE 

"It's an unprecedented precedent" - CLARK CARLISLE

"...but Arsenal are quick to credit Bergkamp with laying on 75% of their nine goals." - TONY GUBBA

"If you closed your eyes, you couldn't tell the difference between the two sides" - PHIL BROWN

"He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces." - RON ATKINSON

"If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again." - TERRY VENABLES

"They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that." - KEVIN KEEGAN

"A game is not won until it is lost." - DAVID PLEAT

"I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet." - DAVID BECKHAM

"I never make predictions, and I never will." - PAUL GASCOIGNE

"I couldn't settle in Italy. It was like living in a foreign country." - IAN RUSH

"There are two ways of getting the ball. One is from your own team-mates, and that's the only way." - TERRY VENABLES

"A contract on a piece of paper, saying you want to leave, is like a piece of paper saying you want to leave." - JOHN HOLLINS

"We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us." - RUUD GULLIT

"I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock." -BARRY VENISON

"My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7." - DAVID BECKHAM

"I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league." - MARK VIDUKA

"If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day." - NEVILLE SOUTHALL

"I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel." - STUART PEARCE

"I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona." - MARK DRAPER

"One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best." - ALAN SHEARER

"All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed." - MITCHELL THOMAS

"Without being too harsh on David Beckham, he cost us the match." - IAN WRIGHT

"Germany are a very difficult team to play...they had 11 internationals out there today." - STEVE LOMAS

"I've had 14 bookings this season - 8 of which were my fault, but 7 of which were disputable." - PAUL GASCOIGNE

"He's put on weight and I've lost it, and vice versa." - RONNIE WHELAN

"The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important." - BOBBY ROBSON

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(During a Presser just after he’d signed Kevin Keegan for Liverpool). 

Reporter: Who do you think is the greater player, Kevin Keegan or Tom Finney?

Shanks:  I’d say they are about the same. 

Reporter:  Really?  In the past you have always said Finney was the greatest there would ever be, now you’re saying Keegan is just as good?

Shanks: We’ll, Tom is 65

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Or Ronnie Yeates talking about when Shankley and club Chairman John Moores went up to Dundee Utd to sign him. 

Shanks: So, eh, son. Eh, what attributes will you bring to Liverpool Football Club?

Yeates: Well, I’m 6 foot 2 so I win everything in the air. 

Shanks:  ooh, ooh, did you hear that Mr chairman, wins everything in the air. Anything else son?

Yeates:  well, I’m 15 stone, so when I tackle people, they stay tackled. 

Shanks:  ooh, ooh, did you hear that Mr chairman, they stay tackled. . Anything else son?

Yeates:  Well, there’s the Penalties 

Shanks:  ooh, ooh, did you hear that Mr chairman, he also takes Penalties. 

Yeates: Oh no, I don’t take them... ?

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