League Quotes - Page 23

• I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Player, Years

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• I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British coach playing 3-4-3? A foreign coach doing that would be a tactical genius. I imagine people think I fell into that system through a stroke of luck or something... it took some thought. I didn't just throw them out there.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Thinking, People

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• Shut your noise, you old c***!

  Alan Pardew

  Football, Noise

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• He is not injured. He's not fit. He's not fit to play football, unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other day and I could have run about more than he did. I can't pick him.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Running, Games

  "QPR boss Harry Redknapp slams 'overweight' Adel Taarabt after leaving him out of Liverpool defeat" by Liam Prenderville, www.mirror.co.uk. October 19, 2014.

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• I can't keep protecting people who don't want to run about and train, who are about three stone overweight. What am I supposed to keep saying? 'Keep getting your 60, 70 grand a week but don't train'? What's the game coming to?

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Running, Games

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• I like Arsene for his principles but principles are sort of a restriction and restrictions are always lost possibilities.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Football, Principles, Possibility

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

  Gary Neville

  Football, Dog, Ducks

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• He's worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.

  Simon Mignolet

  Football, Coffins, Lines

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• It was Tottenham at home. I thought: 'Please don't go on about Tottenham, we all know what Tottenham are about. They are nice and tidy but we'll f****** do them.' Alex came in and said: 'Lads, it's only Tottenham.' And that was it! Brilliant!

  Roy Keane

  Football, Nice, Home

  "Roy Keane says he and Alex Ferguson were on same wavelength at United" by James Riach, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2014.

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• I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.

  Roy Keane

  Football, Numbers, Budweiser

  "The Second Half". Book by Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle, 2014.

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• We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.

  David Moyes

  Football, Couple, Needs

  "David Moyes admits Manchester United aspire to be more like arch-rivals City" by Ed Malyon, www.mirror.co.uk. March 25, 2014.

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• I don't actually watch many shows. I will either watch movies or football. I enjoy to watch games in the Premier League and will also watch movies a lot as well. That is how I relax.

  Xavi

  Football, Games, Relax

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• League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.

  Adrian Hadley

  Rugby League, Unions, Rugby

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• The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Sports, Baseball, Growing Up

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• My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league.

  Kurt Russell

  Teamwork, Stars, Years

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• And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Careers, Honest

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• Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Oasis, Definitions, Desert

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• It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Motivation, Fear

  "Tyson unplugged: On media, fans and his reputation". www.espn.com. May 5, 2002.

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• You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.

  Terrell Davis

  Missing You, Winning, Championship

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• How could it be little me had the power to be The best 'B' in the league yeah inevitably

  Nicki Minaj

  Littles, Bragging, Being The Best

  Song: Blazin', Album: Pink Friday, 2010

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• When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.

  Lynn Swann

  Girl, Football, College

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• But I think the Champions League Final puts a massive pressure on every player and the manager, but we're enjoying the pressure and hopefully we can go there and win it.

  Steven Gerrard

  Soccer, Player, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit ... with no exceptions allowed.

  Sterling W Sill

  Success, Running, Littles

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• We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom, and delirium. Because we need brutality and raw adventure, because men and women first learned to love in, under, and all around trees, because we need for every pair of feet and legs about ten leagues of naked nature, crags to leap from, mountains to measure by, deserts to finally die in when the heart fails.

  Edward Abbey

  Crazy, Heart, Adventure

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• Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

  Bert Campaneris

  Years, Play, Twenties

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