Gary Neville Quotes About Football

Quotes about: Football

• For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

  Gary Neville

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Strong, Mistake

• It could end up like the Dog & Duck against the Red Lion.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Dog, Ducks

• He went in with his shuds stowing.

  Gary Neville

  Football

• We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Fall, Climbing

• We always looked forward to playing Aston Villa to hear him mangle Ugo Ehiogu's name. "Make sure you pick up Ehugu, Ehogy, whatever his name is."

  Gary Neville

  Football, Names, Villa

  Gary Neville (2011). “Red: My Autobiography”, p.160, Random House

• It was like he was being controlled by a 10 year-old on a PlayStation.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Years, Playstation

• I've got no sympathy for him whatsoever. I just wish we had got 10 past him. At the end of the day we've got to be ruthless and we are in the business of winning for us. If they had scored three or four, nobody would have said do you feel sorry for Mark Bosnich? We don't feel sorry for Craig Forrest.

  Gary Neville

  Soccer, Football, Sorry

• With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Motivation, Growth

• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Running, Growing

• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Fighting, Years

• As football gets more globalized, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Team, School

• The Premier League is the No1 league in the world in many areas. The events, the shocks, the production, the viewing figures, the worldwide audience are by far the best. Do I think at this moment in time it's got the highest quality levels in Europe in terms of Champions League football and domination of that area? In quality terms it needs to rise again to get to that point where it's by far the best in all areas.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Thinking, Champions League

• In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Years, League

• I love the introduction of international managers and players into the Premier League. However Manchester United's principles through their history had always been: they will appoint a British manager, there will always promote youth, they will always play a certain style of football, they will always look to entertain. So to me the idea of appointing a British manager, David Moyes, appointing somebody who deserved that opportunity to step up, was the right principle.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Opportunity, Player

• They're crying. It was Drogba, it was the angels, it was the heavens, it was the stars, it was the gods, it was everything for Chelsea. This is not anything to do with football. This is more than football, this is spirit. Never giving in, fighting to the end, that English spirit running right the way through this Champions League for Chelsea.

  Gary Neville

  Running, Football, Stars

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