Best/Legendary Manager Quotes (1 Viewer)

[mechaishida]

"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 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."

Sir Bobby Robson CBE.

I hadn't heard/read this before today, strangely. He's taken a cliche and added something magnificent to it, brilliantly evocative.

 

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[Johnnythespider]

"Small boys in the park, 20 a side, jumpers for goalposts, marvellous isn't it."
Ron Manager.

 

[wingy]

Some people think football Is a matter of life or death. I don't like that.
I can assure them It's much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly.

 

[rob9872]

I wouldn't say I'm the best Manager, but I'm in the top 1

Brian Clough


(in fact loads by clough and our own Strachan are priceless)

 

[Covstu]

'I am the special one' - jose

'I would love it if we beat them, love it' - Kev keegan

 

[ajsccfc]

'We need goals. Put Jermaine Grandison on'

- Chris Coleman

 

[Gazolba]

A few from Tommy Docherty (there are many more):

On modern players: "I’ve seen some recently who could trap a ball further than I could kick it. When they pass it, they should attach this message: ‘To whom it may concern!’ And they’re getting 50 grand a week and upwards."

On the media: "I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet."

On compensation: "They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that."

 

[Gazolba]

Alex Ferguson:

On Dennis Wise: “He could start a row in an empty house.”

On Filipo Inzaghi: "That lad must have been born offside."

On Ryan Giggs: "I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cocker spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind."

On Gary Neville: "If he was an inch taller he'd be the best centre half in Britain. His father is 6ft 2in - I'd check the milkman."

 

[mechaishida]

Alex Ferguson:

On Dennis Wise: “He could start a row in an empty house.”

On Filipo Inzaghi: "That lad must have been born offside."

On Ryan Giggs: "I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cocker spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind."

On Gary Neville: "If he was an inch taller he'd be the best centre half in Britain. His father is 6ft 2in - I'd check the milkman."

Say what you like about ol' purple-chops, he knew the nature of players like the back of his hand.

Was right about Strachan too.

 

[andrew.roberts]

"They (opponents) can't play football six feet in the air"
Norman Pilsbury, legendary Jules Verne F.C manager


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[jimmyhillsfanclub]

He's got no pace, he cannot kick with his left foot, he cannot head a ball, he cannot tackle and he doesn't score many goals. Apart from that he's all right."

George Best on David Beckham.

 

[mechaishida]

George Best on David Beckham.

Brilliant quote, my feelings and opinion of Beckham have pretty much been the same as Best's.

This one, from Cloughie:

''I've only ever hit Roy (Keane) once. He got up, so I couldn't have hit him hard."

 

[SuperElite]

One of my favourites: "Do i not fucking like that!" (all-purpose, about anything that happened on the pitch particularly while he was at the helm for England)

- "Turnip" Taylor

 

[bringbackrattles]

Cloughie was the master at witty comments as has been quoted on here. He loved having a pop at John Robertson for some reason,and my favourite is: " He was a very unattractive young man,If I ever felt off colour I'd sit next to him because compared to him I looked like Errol Flynn." And on Kenny Dalglish : " He wasn't that big,but he had a huge arse.It came down below his knees,and that's where he got his strength from." And he even had a pop at our very own Jimmy Hill when Jimmy asked Cloughie for an open debate :" No problem.If he can find a ground where he scored a league goal.I'll meet him there !"

 

[mechaishida]

Cloughie was the master at witty comments as has been quoted on here. He loved having a pop at John Robertson for some reason,and my favourite is: " He was a very unattractive young man,If I ever felt off colour I'd sit next to him because compared to him I looked like Errol Flynn." And on Kenny Dalglish : " He wasn't that big,but he had a huge arse.It came down below his knees,and that's where he got his strength from." And he even had a pop at our very own Jimmy Hill when Jimmy asked Cloughie for an open debate :" No problem.If he can find a ground where he scored a league goal.I'll meet him there !"

He was as sharp as a needle, ol' Cloughie. Sarcastic, but without being malicious.

This quote shows he had at least one humble bone in his body:

"On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be."

 

[philster11]

I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season - Ian Holloway

 

[Gazolba]

Chris Turner of Peterborough before a match:

"I've told the players we need to win so that I can have the cash to buy some new ones."

Partick Thistle’s John Lambie after Colin McGlashan did not know who he was after suffering concussion:

"Tell him he's Pele, and get him back on."

Ian Holloway on his Blackpool side after a 4-1 defeat at Crystal Palace

"If you're a burglar, it's no good poncing about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy."

Hamilton's Iain Munro in 1995

"I'd hang myself, but we can't afford the rope"

 

[Gazolba]

Claudio Ranieri "Football managers are like a parachutist. At times it doesn't open. Here, it is an umbrella. You understand, Mary Poppins".

 

[Gazolba]

Rafael Benitez "Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar".

 

[Gazolba]

Bobby Robson after playing Cameroon at the 1990 World Cup:

“We didn’t underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.”

 

[Gazolba]

Phil Woosnam, Welsh football player and manager:

“The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn’t move, kick it until it does.”

 

[Gazolba]

Ruud Gullit explaining a defeat:

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

 

[Gazolba]

Arigo Sachi on being a manager:

“You don’t have to have been a horse to be a jockey.”

 

[Gazolba]

Gerard Houllier on Liverpool:

“You can’t say my team aren’t winners. They’ve proved that by finishing fourth, third and second in the last three years.”

 

[mechaishida]

Ruud Gullit explaining a defeat:

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

Proof that a legendary player can always turn into a diabolical manager. Didn't Alan Shearer once tell an anecdote about Gullit during his time at Newcastle? He said something like, they were losing at home at halftime, he came into the dressing room to find Gullit staring at his notes, pounding his own fist into his head...Shearer looked at the notes, and Gullit was going to make tactical changes that only included having two defenders and SEVEN midfielders.