Chairman Quotes - Page 6

• The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Dog

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• I asked the players: 'Do you want to enjoy the game? Or do you want to enjoy after the game?' The players told me they wanted to enjoy after the game so I said: 'OK, then we will enjoy after the game'.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Clever

  "'Why go for 5-0 when 2-0 will do?' says Jose". Interview with David Shonfield, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2006.

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• You are pushed to behave differently here, you don't really have a choice. If you cheat you have no chance of being admired. Even your own supporters will dislike you. So what do you do? Well, the way is not to be stupid, but not to cheat either. If there is a foul, you have to fall. I call it 'helping the referee to make a decision'. That's not cheating.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Cheating

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• The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.

  Johnny Giles

  Soccer, Football, Goes On

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• If something is not right we give out about it. He is almost a Yorkshireman with a Portuguese accent.

  Neil Warnock

  Soccer, Football, Giving

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• When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho.

  Julian Sands

  Soccer, Football, Zoos

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• I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

  David Blunkett

  Soccer, Football, Incarnation

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• The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Tomorrow

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• It was a titanic effort.

  Glenn Hoddle

  Soccer, Football, Effort

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• If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• My students used to say, one such as Mary O'Neal, that I identified the students by their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. That was the way I knew them and keep up with them. Mary was the girlfriend of Stokely Carmichael. She later became a fine painter of distinction and taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, and later became chairman of the Department of Art at Berkeley.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Girlfriend, San Francisco

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.

  Ken Bates

  Soccer, Wise, Football

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• Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

  Ken Bates

  Soccer, Football, Attitude

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• A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!

  Delia Smith

  Soccer, Football, Men

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• The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.

  Ron Noades

  Soccer, Football, Team

  "Sorry seems to be the hardest word" by Steven Wells, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2002.

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• I'm not going to make a present of Santa.

  Sam Allardyce

  Soccer, Football, Santa

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• I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

  Neil Warnock

  Soccer, Football, President

  "Warnock - mad as chips" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2002.

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• A terrific game, even on the losing side I could enjoy it.

  Nigel Worthington

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.

  Steve Coppell

  Soccer, Football, Luck

  "The quiet man". Interview with Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• He's not fit, either physically or biomechanically.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Soccer, Football, Fit

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• Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

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• I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism.

  Martin Jol

  Soccer, Football, People

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• I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Sitting

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