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More football quotes  English 1998-07-09 News, events, anekdotes and announcements
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"Two Andy Gorams, there's only two Andy Gorams"
- Kilmarnock fans to the Rangers keeper after he had been diagnosed with mild schizophrenia

"I've told the players we need to win so that I can have the cash to buy some new ones."
- Chris Turner, Peterborough manager, before LC QF, 1992

"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
- George Best

"If we played like that every week we wouldn't be so inconsistent."
- Bryan Robson, Man Utd, 1990

"That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on."
- John Lambie, Partick Thistle manager, when told a concussed striker did not know who he was.

"I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs."
- Andy Gray, Sky Sport

Richard Keys: "Well Roy, do you think that you'll have to finish above Manchester United to win the league?"
Roy Evans: "You have to finish above everyone to win the league"
Richard: " "

"It's now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday."
- Radio 5 Live

"Football today, it's like a game of chess. It's all about money."
- Newcastle United Fan, Radio 5 Live

"I'm not a believer in luck but I do believe you need it."
- Alan Ball

"Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different."
- Trevor Brooking

"Dumbarton player Steve McCahill has limped off with a badly cut forehead"
- Tom Ferrie

"And I honestly believe we can go all the way to Wembley unless somebody knocks us out."
- Dave Bassett

"And Arsenal now have plenty of time to dictate the last few seconds."
- Peter Jones

"What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal."
- Jimmy Hill

"Newcastle, of course, unbeaten in their last five wins."
- Brian Moore

"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer."
- David Ackfield

"What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio."
- Gerry Francis

"If there weren't such a thing as football, we'd all be frustrated footballers."
- Mick Lyons

"He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head."
- Derek Johnstone, BBC TV Scotland, 1994

"I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel."
- Stuart Pearce, 1992

Jimmy Hill: "Don't sit on the fence Terry, what chance do you think Germany has got of getting through?"
Terry Venables: "I think it's fifty-fifty"

"There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch"
- Ron Atkinson lauds Gordon Strachan, 39

"If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim."
- Berti Vogts, Germany coach

"You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey."
- Arrigo Sacchi, Italy coach, defending a meagre playing record

"The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to Eurodisney."
- Dean Holdsworth, Wimbledon

"If the players want to make it hard for me, I am happy to make it twice as hard for them."
- Wendy Toms, the first female referee to officiate in a professional game

"I think having Wasps around here as well gives us that little buzz around the place."
- Ray Wilkins on the QPR-Wasps groundshare

"It took a lot of bottle for Tony to own up."
- Ian Wright on the Arsenal captain's confession to alcoholism
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