Chelsea Quotes - Page 4

• There's a few ugly ones. Carlo is probably the best looking [on chelsea players]

  Frank Lampard

  Player, Ugly

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• As a Chelsea fan I always want the team to be in the best possible hands, as they are right now with Roberto Di Matteo.

  Gianfranco Zola

  Team, Hands, Fans

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• Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC

  Samuel Eto'o

  Play, Village, Clubs

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• At the last minute, from what I can gather, either Emmanuel Adebayor or his agent phoned us after they had agreed a deal with City and then did the same with Chelsea. He was desperate to get to either Chelsea or us.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Cities, Emmanuel

  "Emmanuel Adebayor was 'desperate' not to join Manchester City, claims Sir Alex Ferguson" by Mikey Stafford, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2009.

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• If Chelsea drop points, the cat's out in the open. And you know what cats are like - sometimes they don't come home.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Home, Cat

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• Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.

  David Starkey

  Kings, Powerful, History

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• I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

  Andriy Shevchenko

  Hard Times, Injury, Back Again

  "Andriy Shevchenko backs Chelsea's Fernando Torres to start scoring" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2011.

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• It's an honour to wear the shirt and the badge, and to be part of such an illustrious club is gonna be exciting, and putting that shirt on will be pretty special. Well, my message to Chelsea fans is that I can promise that I'll work hard and give my all for this club. Hopefully we can build up a good relationship over the next few years. And I'm just excited to be part of this whole club and organisation and bringing as much success to it as possible.

  Asmir Begovic

  Hard Work, Years, Giving

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• You look at Man United and Liverpool, and they are red - they are much more successful and have a bigger fan base than Chelsea or Manchester City.

  Vincent Tan

  Successful, Men, Cities

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• Chelsea has always been a foodie heaven and it will never change in that respect.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Heaven, Never Change

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• If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood.

  Rafael Benitez

  Riding, Littles, Red

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• Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.

  Michael Carrick

  Europe, Tests, Tough

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• I get to my feet when Chelsea fans sing 'Stand up if you hate Man U'. But though I hate them, I have to admire them too.

  Ken Bates

  Hate, Men, Feet

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• I think Chelsea Girls is a complete masterpiece and I think Andy's [Warhol] films are equally as good as the art. I think one day they will be considered equal. They aren't yet. They will be.

  John Waters

  Girl, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Congratulations to Chelsea Clinton. Over the weekend, she gave birth to a baby girl. The baby girl will not confirm or deny whether she's running in 2056.

  David Letterman

  Girl, Running, Baby

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• The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don't know - Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel - the quality of philosophy.

  Doris Lessing

  Philosophy, Army, Should Have

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• My mother had heard all about miniskirts but had never seen one so I took her for lunch at Alvaro's [in Chelsea]. We walked down the King's Road and waited 10 seconds for our first miniskirt and a girl came along with her skirt tucked round her arse. I said: 'What do you think, ma?' And she said: 'If it's not for sale, you shouldn't put it in the window!'

  Michael Caine

  Girl, Mother, Kings

  "Michael Caine meets William Orbit". Interview with William Orbit, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• What United have got that Chelsea haven't is Paul Scholes. I think he is different to anything else in English football.

  Kevin Keegan

  Football, Thinking, Different

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• Ive been to the White House and had Hilary Clinton push through the crowd to come and meet me. Chelsea Clinton, too.

  Lesley Nicol

  White, House, Crowds

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• I want to say thanks to the Chelsea fans because I have seen them very, very happy with me for joining Chelsea.

  Fernando Torres

  Fans, Joining, Want

  "Fernando Torres: Full Transcript of the £50m Striker's First Interview Since Joining Chelsea". February 01, 2011.

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• Arsenal are the most beautiful club in England. At Man City and Chelsea, they will never have that class and style.

  Marco van Basten

  Beautiful, Men, Class

  "Van Basten: RvP must never leave the Gunners - Exclusive", www.mirror.co.uk. November 5, 2011.

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• Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them

  George Best

  Team, Men, Choppers

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• I love the 6 Nations rugby. I feel very Scottish then. I feel very Scottish now, sitting in the middle of Chelsea. But thats part of our heritage - being part of Britain, part of Europe. I love being European.

  Rory Bremner

  Love Is, Europe, Heritage

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• All the fans know my love for Chelsea and I hope to be back here in the future in another role.

  Didier Drogba

  Fans, Roles, Knows

  "Chelsea's Didier Drogba will bow out with Sunderland but wants a return". Press Association, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2015.

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• When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's public via WikiLeaks, he was put into an inhumane solitary confinement and is now facing charges that carry the possibility of him spending the rest of his life in prison.

  Ray McGovern

  Aka, Important, Wikileaks

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