Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Holloway

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

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.

The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.

There are those who say maybe I should forget about football. Maybe I should forget about breathing.

Harry Mathews

My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.

Harry Redknapp

You come here to Anfield, you stand there and listen to that crowd, and it's the greatest sight in football.

Harry Redknapp

I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.

Harry Redknapp

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

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

I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

Harry Redknapp

Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it. Too small, you would think - can't run, dumpy little ginger nut - but then the ball would come to him and he would dazzle you. He was the best footballer in that Manchester United midfield, better than Ryan Giggs and Roy Keane.

Harry Redknapp

He's disappeared to Azerbaijan, or somewhere ridiculous in the world.

Harry S Truman

It's tougher to be a football coach than the President of the United States. You've got four years as a president, and they guard you. A football coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong.

J. K. Rowling

He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.

H. L. Mencken

College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.

J. R. Moehringer

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.