Real Life Football Quotes


# "What will you do when you leave football, Jack - will you stay in football?"
(STUART HALL, Radio 5 Live)

# "Unfortunately, we keep kicking ourselves in the foot."
(RAY WILKINS, speaking on BBC1)

# "I've got a gut feeling in my stomach. . ."
(ALAN SUGAR, speaking on BBC1)

# "The new West Stand casts a giant shadow over the entire pitch, even on a sunny day."
(CHRIS JONES, Evening Standard)

# "I would not say he [David Ginola] is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better."
(RON AKTINSON in a TV interview)

# "Johnson has revelled in the 'hole' behind Dwight Yorke. . ."
(Carling FA Premiership WWW Page)

# "An inch or two either side of the post and that would have been a goal."
(DAVE BASSETT, speaking on Sky Sports)

# "Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals."
(PETER WITHE, speaking on Radio 5 Live)

# "What's it like being in Bethlehem, the place where Christmas began? I suppose it's like seeing Ian Wright at Arsenal...."
(BRUCE RIOCH, ITV)

# "And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than at any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway."
(JOHN MOTSON, BBC)

# "I never make predictions, and I never will."
(PAUL GASCOIGNE)

# "And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold."
(JIMMY HILL)

# "....and the news from Guadalajara where the temperature is 96 degrees, is that Falcao is warming up."
(BRIAN MOORE)

# "If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again."
(TERRY VENABLES)

# "The Uruguayans are losing no time in making a meal around the referee."
(MIKE INGHAM)

# "I think that was a moment of cool panic there."
(RON ATKINSON)

# "Beckenbauer really has gambled all his eggs."
(RON ATKINSON)

# "Celtic manager Davie Hay still has a fresh pair of legs up his sleeve."
(JOHN GREIG)

# "It's headed away by John Clark, using his head."
(DEREK RAE)

# "Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this Cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs side."
(MIKE INGHAM)