Jock Stein
Jock Stein
John "Jock" Stein CBEwas a Scottish football player and manager. He became the first manager of a British side to win the European Cup, with Celtic in 1967. Stein also guided Celtic to nine successive Scottish League championships between 1966 and 1974...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth5 October 1922
Jock Stein quotes about
far people
I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.
moving time-to-move-on
There is always a time to move on.
friday morning team
My proudest moment? Every Friday morning when I look at the board at Celtic Park and see my name on the team sheet for tomorrow's game.
moving what-matters made
I lost some friends when I made the move, but if that's what matters to them, then they're not really friends at all.
done achieve celtic
If I can achieve for Celtic what I have achieved for Hibs, then I feel I will have done well for them.
substitutes
There is no substitute for experience
problem
It's not religion that's the problem - it's the lack of religion!
penalties best-place boxes
The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.
past celtic-park want
It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends.
no-excuses fit excuse
There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.
song introducing enough
Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.
first-love lasts firsts
Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love.
losing reason temper
There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.
boys men giving
The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.