Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Holloway

It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake.

Ian Holloway

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

Ian Holloway

The dietician is going to get rid of that when he comes in. Although, first, we've got to get a dietician.

Ian Holloway

This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out.

Ian Holloway

There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.

Ian Holloway

You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.

Ian Holloway

I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.

Ian Holloway

My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.

Ian Holloway

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

I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I suppose that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course they’d have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin.

Ian Holloway

To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've done what you set out to do. We didn't look our best today but we pulled. Some weeks the lady is good looking and some weeks she's not. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee.

Ian Mcewan

Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes.

Ian Brown

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.

Ian Brown

It's Denmark 3 Denmark 0...

Ian Brown

Knight saved it with his back arm

Hugh MacDiarmid

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

Homer

The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.

If it happens two or three years in a row, obviously there's a problem, ... It's hard to think about that scenario playing out. There's a lot of football left to play, but if it does, they have to look at the system.

If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.

Koren Robinson

If I'm a better man than I am a football player, well, that's just fine.

Sven Eriksson

I can't understand why a player can't play football until he's charged.

Ron Zook

I don't think there's any question that we were a better football team this week than we were last week. It's important that we played a lot of people. We're going to need those guys down the road.

Sven Eriksson

I am very pleased that we won and are starting to play football with the right spirit again.

He's not only big and strong, he's got moves. They were just better than we were tonight. They're going to win a lot of football games this year, that's for sure.

Tony Dungy

He's got a little foot soreness, not really a sprain but just a sore foot. But all indications are he should be ready to go. So we just wanted to rest him today.

Jon Gruden

He's made plays. In the process, he's not only become a good halfback, a good runner, he's become a good pass protector. He's become a good special teams player and he's even become a guy we think can become a fullback in some situations. So he's come a long way as a football player.

However, it doesn't mean he will play football after that period. When that moment arrives, Gabriel will be tested to see if he is ready to play football or not.

How many football players have been on Sesame Street ? You want to be creative.

Eric Bristow

All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

Eric Cantona

I don't think the world of football is so serious. It's important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we believe we are kings or gods, we become crazy. We all know it's a game and we all enjoy it together.

Eric Cantona

I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.

Eric Cantona

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

Eric Cantona

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.