West Ham Quotes

• The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer.

  Ron Greenwood

  Soccer, Football, Suffering

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• West Ham have committed 13 fouls, but they weren't fouls, they were commitment

  Ray Wilkins

  Commitment, Ham, West

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• The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Men, Ham, Care

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• This is football from the 19th century. It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play. A football match is about two teams playing. I told Big Sam, they need points. To come here the way they did, is that acceptable? Maybe it is, they need points. The only thing I could bring more was Black & Decker - a Black & Decker to destroy the West Ham wall.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Wall, Team

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• I'm very happy to have moved to West Ham, because I can play for a better team than Sheffield Wednesday.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season

  Rob Hawthorne

  Football, Victory, Ham

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• I just came to West Ham to play football, the rest is not for me to say.

  Carlos Tevez

  Football, Play, Ham

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• I remember being in West Ham's youth team and seeing Jody Morris play for Chelsea at 17 and you scoring for Liverpool on your debut when you were 18. I was watching it on Soccer Saturday and I was like, "I can't believe he's scored!" It's professional jealousy. It's best to be honest about it. It gave me real desire. I was thinking "God I want that to be me".

  Frank Lampard

  Soccer, Team, Real

  "JAMIE CARRAGHER INTERVIEWS FRANK LAMPARD: Foul-mouthed clashes, Steven Gerrard's emotional bouquet and why ex-Chelsea man still hasn't retired". Interview With Jamie Carragher, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 27, 2017.

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• Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Dad, Ham, West

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• West Ham play a speficic type of game - football.

  Artur Boruc

  Football, Games, Play

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• I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.

  Tom Dunne

  Soccer, New Year, Football

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• We've got sports scientists who insist it's important for the lads to eat after games to refuel, even if it's 2am. I used to refuel after games at West Ham until half past three in the morning in a different way - but then I'm old school.

  Harry Redknapp

  Sports, Morning, School

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• When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.

  Frank Lampard

  Thinking, Games, England

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