David Pleat Quotes

• Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

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  Football, Team, Winning

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• Winning isn't the end of the world

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  Letting Go, Being Single, Breast Cancer

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• A game is not won until it is lost.

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  Football, Games, Lost

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• There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.

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  Football, Spurs, Fierce

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• You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

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  Football, Biscuits, Sometimes

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• There's too much - I don't know what the word is - scientology in the game.

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  Football, Games, Too Much

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• I'm not too sure how much you get for winning the Champion's League, but it's definitely 10 million euros.

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  Winning, League, Champion

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• Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn't always get picked.

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  Player, Courses, Left

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• Ronaldo has been compared to the incomparable George Best

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  Incomparable, Has Beens

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• For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls

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  Men, Balls, Maradona

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• I've seen some players with very big feet ... and some with very small feet.

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  Player, Feet, Bigs

  "Swells Awardz 2005" by Steven Wells, www.theguardian.com. December 21, 2005.

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• The zip on the pitch is very zippy

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  Zips

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• When you've got a mountain to climb you may as well throw everything into the kitchen sink.

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  Football, Kitchen, Mountain

  "Live television is 'a high-wire act with no safety net'" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2011.

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• Sammy Lee is another inbred player

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  Player, Inbreds

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• He is an interesting player - short back legs.

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  Football, Player, Interesting

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• I was inbred into the game by my father

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  Father, Games, Inbreds

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• I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.

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  Football, Real, Player

  "My dream team as a manager after 50 years in football" by David Pleat, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2010.

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• I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.

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  Drinking, Men, Drink

  "Testing negative" by George Wright, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2004.

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• He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.

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  Football, Careers, Lovely

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• Pires has got something about him, he can go both ways depending on who's facing him

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  Way

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• Preki quite literally only has the one foot

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  Feet

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