Premier League Quotes - Page 3

• We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League.

  Vincent Tan

  Long, League, Survival

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• You have different levels of players. There's are Premier League, international and world-class levels. The world-class level is players at the peak of their career and there's only maybe 50 maximum in the whole world. Stevie moved from a Premier League player to an international player and then world class.

  Gerard Houllier

  Player, Class, Careers

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• In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.

  Louis Susman

  Sports, League, Prominent

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• If you want to think about cooking, and it's a high-five, laid back motion, then flip burgers and dress Caesar salad, don't try to pitch in the premier league of restaurant. Build up to it, by all means.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Mean, Thinking, League

  "Q&A: Gordon Ramsay On 'Hell's Kitchen'". Interview with Rick Ellis, allyourscreens.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I would not want to be the Europa League in the current format, that's for sure. Thursday night games are difficult to contend with given the level of physicality we deal with in the Premier League. We struggled with it at Newcastle and we were not alone in that among the English clubs. Until that issue is addressed, no Premier League team wants to be in the Europa League. That's the reality, even if some don't want to admit it.

  Alan Pardew

  Team, Night, Reality

  Source: www.espnfc.com

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• I'm looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and to be playing for Arsenal in the Premier League and Champions League. I will give my best to Arsenal and want to make all the supporters happy.

  Alexis Sanchez

  Team, Champions League, Giving

  "Arsenal confirm the signing of Alexis Sánchez from Barcelona" by Ed Aarons, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2014.

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• I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Dark, League

  "Cardiff City V Blackpool: the Wit and Wisdom of Ian Holloway". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 21, 2010.

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• Every dog has its day - and today is woof day! Today I just want to bark.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Dog, Want

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• Growing up, watching the Premier League as far back as I can remember, feeling the trophy and having the medal around my neck was an unbelievable feeling.

  Wayne Rooney

  Growing Up, League, Feelings

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• Arsenal could have happened, as everybody knows, but I would not do a trial. Who do you think regrets that more - Arsene Wenger or Zlatan?

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Football, Regret, Thinking

  "Zlatan Ibrahimovic: I'd have DESTROYED Premier League defences if I'd moved to England" by Dave Kidd, www.mirror.co.uk. February 23, 2014.

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• I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Champions League, Two

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• At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

  Jo Nesbo

  Soccer, Player, League

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• I do feel that I have unfinished business in the Premier League and now is the right time to return. I considered all the other offers very carefully and I firmly believe that Chelsea is the best choice. They match my footballing ambitions with their hunger and desire to win trophies.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Believe, Ambition, Winning

  "Cesc Fabregas transfer: Arsenal fans react to former midfielder's move to Stamford Bridge" by Paul Gorst, www.mirror.co.uk. June 12, 2014.

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• Maybe Louis does have a golden willy.

  Arjen Robben

  Football, League, Doe

  "World Cup 2014 talking points: is Van Gaal lucky or is it a steel nerve?" by Nick Miller and Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2014.

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• It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Play, Piano

  "'If I Fell in a Barrel of Boobs, I'd Come Out Sucking My Thumb!' - the Wisdom of Ian Holloway". www.standard.co.uk. May 24, 2010.

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• Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Vintage, League

  "Ian Holloway in His Own Words". www.bbc.com. November 03, 2012.

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• You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Thinking, Swans

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• I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, League, Needs

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• In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony uses in his cake that gets talked about all the time is Rory's throw. Call that cinnamon and he's got a cinnamon flavoured cake.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Cake, League

  "Blackpool Boss Ian Holloway Defends Tactics Of Stoke Counterpart Tony Pulis In Typically Eccentric Fashion". www.goal.com. December 11, 2010.

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• Remy Cabella, I think he deserves something else than Newcastle. I wouldn't go there. You must get bored s***less in Newcastle.

  Louis Nicollin

  Football, Thinking, League

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• Javier Pastore wouldn't get a beach ball off me if we were locked in a phone box. He's turd. Anyone who thinks he isn't is clueless.

  Joey Barton

  Football, Beach, Clueless

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• I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.

  Luis Suarez

  Football, Strong, Pain

  "Luis Suárez recognises no limits, either good or bad" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2014.

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• For me, Marouane Fellaini has been one of the best midfielders in the Premier League over the last few seasons. If he continues to improve at United, we’ll have a really good player on our hands.

  David Moyes

  Player, Hands, League

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• Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.

  Sepp Blatter

  Winning, League, Effort

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• I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season!

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Badgers, Mating

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