Favourite football quotes

“We must have had 99 percent of the game. it was the other three percent that cost us the match.”
Ruud Gullit

What's your favourite?

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."
Brian Clough

They think it’s all over..it is now!  

"You lose trust"

That winger is very fast lets see how fast he can limp.

NUMEROUS

My favourites from Germany in free translation:

Lukas Posolski: "Football is like chess, just without the dice" (Fussball ist wie Schach, bloss ohne Würfel)

Andreas Brehme: "When you have excrement on your feet, you have excrement on your feet" (haste Scheisse am Fuss, haste Scheisse am Fuss)

Andreas Möller (on the question where he intends to move next): "Milan or Madrid, most important it's Italy" (Mailand oder Madrid, Hauptsache Italien)

Horst Szymaniak (1950/60 german international - during contract negotiations): " One-third more ?? no, no, I want minimum one-fourth more" (Ein Drittel mehr? Nee, ich will mindestens ein Viertel mehr.)

Dietmar Demuth (former St. Pauli coach): "Our tactic is to demoralise our opponents by permanently scoring goals" (den Gegner durch permanentes Tore schiessen zermürben)

"they got pulled off at half time!!?,  All we got was a cup of tea and an orange!!"... Rodney Marsh ..

I didn't see it Jeff.  

Chris Kamara.

The Jason McAteer one about having his pizza cut into 4 slices rather than 8 because he wasn't so hungry always sticks in my mind as one of the funniest / dumbest.

Quoted from pizzzza

The Jason McAteer one about having his pizza cut into 4 slices rather than 8 because he wasn't so hungry always sticks in my mind as one of the funniest / dumbest.

That’s been on iTunes a few times but it’s not McAteer. It’s a dumb blonde , very funny

You cannot win anything with kids, Alan Hansen

Today: neil warnock

'When I die, I don't want a minutes silence. I want everyone to sing warnock is a wank3r'

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Quoted from promotion plaice

"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."
Brian Clough

Non-football but I like ‘that Mohammed Ali, he’s met me.’

Warnock after a Sheff U game with dodgy ref (Soon after the new rules about bad mouthing the refs came in) when asked by pundit after about refs display he pulled a scrap of paper out of his pocket and said something on the lines of " I've had this note from Alex Ferguson and it says the ref was a complete joke today."

Also from 66 World Cup Ramsey to Nobby Styles " I want you to mark Rattin," reply, "what permanently boss?"

''On his day he is one of the best players in the country unfortunately that day is never a Saturday.''

I seem to remember our very own Kenny Swain, after losing in the cup to Sheffield Wednesday saying (may not have the precise words) "for clubs like us, the FA cup is the icing on the cake... unfortunately we don't even have a cake"

The boy's feet have been up in the clouds since the win. - Alan Buckley

I never make predictions and I never will. - Gazza

Ally MacLeod thought that tactics were a new kind of mint. - Billy Connolly

We didn't underestimate them, they were a lot better than we thought. - Bobby Robson

I want Liverpool to be a boring as Joe Louis. - Bill Shankly

“And this late result just in.....
Chester 1 Chesterfield 1. So a score draw there in the local derby.”

Someone had a field day in Chester.

I don’t comment on referees performances and i’m not breaking my rule for that prat.

Ron Atkinson.

Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it

Not football but one of my favorites think it was 1996 Olympics  the hockey team ....."where were the Germans .....but frankly who cares ")

They're second in the table tonight, and you can't get better than that.

And in the Borussia derby, Dortmund beat Mönchengladbach.

Kenny Burns after Brian clough farted and tried to blame Kenny. Clough stop that Kenny to which he replied which way did it go. Shilts you stop that if you can.

We do our p.r. on the pitch

“Bloody hell i’ve just seen David Platt’s knob”
Darrell Parkes (Referee) in the bath at the City Ground.

The one about there being no reason we can’t be in the championship in 5 years makes me chuckle 😥

“Of course I didn’t take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present.
It was her birthday.
Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves.”

Bill Shankly

Italia 90. Bobby Robson speaking to Gazza about playing against Lothar Matthaus.


Sir Bobby: "You're going to be up against the best midfield player in the world today."

Gazza: "No......he is."

Oh hell, any of Keegan's would make this list. If I had to choose one, it would be:

(on describing Emile Heskey, I think)


"...he's using his strength. And that's his strength, his strength."

It's almost a one line novel. Perfect.

Brian Clough went to watch Garry Birtles playing for Retford.  He said afterwards “that the oxo he had at half-time was better than Birtles”.

Well he still bought him and won the European Cup twice with him.  We also bought Garry as well! 😋

Cloughie climbs in to bed at night and his wife Barbara says, “God your feet are cold!” to which he replies, “It’s alright love, you can call me Brian.”

Hand bags, man bags, bum bags, bean bags, some kind of bags.

Sean Dyche

Anything by Shankly, my favourite being:

"If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains".

Jim Dobbin ;

"the gaffer was screaming to put it in the corner, i thought he meant top corner "   (or similar words to that effect )

Of course then there is the Shankly quote:

"That Grimsby team was pound for pound, and class for class, the best football team I have seen in England since the war. In the league they were in they played football nobody else could play. Everything was measured, planned and perfected and you could not wish to see more entertaining football." 

If you don’t facking like it don’t come.

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