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Dunkstar

Active member
Jul 6, 2003
2,428
Up a Hill
Whats your fave football quote?

Personally i like

"I felt a lump in my throat as the ball went in"

Said by Terry of Venables during Euro 96'

Keep em coming:drink:
 




Trigger

Well-known member
Jul 4, 2003
40,457
Brighton
I know its not football but this one always makes me chuckle...

As Michael Holding prepares to bowl to Peter Willey...
"The bowler's Holding the batsman's Willey" :lolol:

Brian Johnston - Cricket Commentator
 




Wilts

New member
Jul 5, 2003
1,772
Bournemouth/Reading
Also:

"The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful." - commentator (which one?!)
 


Wilts

New member
Jul 5, 2003
1,772
Bournemouth/Reading
"We've still got a lot of points on the board...to get."
- Glenn Hoddle stays positive after England's 2-1 defeat by Sweden.

"I've plenty of bows to my string."
- Vinnie Jones explains why he didn't apply for the QPR manager's job.

"It was just like playing on the left. Except it was on the right."
- A wing's a wing for Ryan Giggs.

"Germany are a very difficult team to play. . . they had 11 internationals out there today."
- Northern Ireland midfielder Steve Lomas.

"The groin's been a little sore but I've put it to the back of my head."
- Wimbledon's Michael Hughes sticks his groin behind his ear and carries on playing.

"At the moment, we're not interested in the Cup, we're only interested in the present day, and that's Charlton tomorrow."
- Derby boss Jim Smith on his `two days at a time' philosophy.

"I enjoy women's company, I love flirting with them - why not? - but not dangerously these days, so you get the benefit of the flirting without the consequences, which tend to be very embarrassing."
- Jimmy Hill. Yes, Jimmy Hill.



And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who Turned 20 a few weeks ago"
(David Coleman)
"Once Tony Daley opens his legs you've got a problem"
(Howard Wilkinson)

"Its a great advantage to be able to hurdle with both legs"
(David Coleman)

"We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite"
(Murray Walker)

"After playing Cameroon in the 1990 world cup finals: "We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought"
(Bobby Robson)

"And with an alphabetical irony, Nigeria follows New Zealand"
(David Coleman)

On the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living In Italy: "It was like being in a foreign country"
(Ian Rush)

"Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand."
(Ted Lowe)

"Ah! Isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew"
(Harry Carpenter)

Jimmy Hill: "Don't sit on the fence Terry. What chance do You think Germany has of getting through?
Terry Venables: "I think it's 50-50."

"Hodge scored for Forest after 22 seconds - totally against the run of play"
(Peter Lorenzo)

"We actually got the winner three minutes from the end but then they equalised"
(Ian McNail)

"I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat"
(Ron Atkinson)

"I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost"
(Frank Bruno)

"Henry Horton's got a funny stance. It looks as if he's shitting on a sooting stick."
(Brian Johnstone)

"There's going to be a real ding-dong when the bell goes."
(David Coleman)

"There is Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20,000 people"
(David Coleman)

"The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical"
(Murray Walker)

"I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel"
(Stuart Pearce)

"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father"
(Greg Norman)

"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious"
(Alan Minter)

"Watch the time -it gives you an indication of how fast they are running"
(Ron Pickering)

"Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansel. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers"
(Murray Walker)

"Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales"
(Ron Greenwood)

"A brain Scan revealed that Andrew Caddick is not suffering from stress fracture of the shin"
(Jo Sheldon)

The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation"
(Ron Pickering)

That's inches away from being millimetre perfect"
(Ted Lowe)

"Bobby Gould thinks I'm trying to stab him in the back. In fact I'm right behind him"
(Stuart Pearson)

"I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right"
(Marlon Starling)

"If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again"
(Terry Venables)

"I can't tell who's leading - It's either Oxford orCambridge"
(John Snagge - Boat Race)

"The Queen's Park Oval, exactly as its name suggests - absolutely round."
(Tony Crozier)
 






looney

Banned
Jul 7, 2003
15,652
"One has not lived untill one has seen the hand that in considerate fasion, kills."

F.W.Neitszche
 


Reading Posh

Sophisticated rhetorician
Jul 8, 2003
1,305
Off M4 J11
Heard on TalkSport, some peace-loving England fan...

“I love England, I’m going. I’m a family man, I’m not looking for trouble. I’m SAS trained and if one of them Turks comes near me, I’ll do ‘im.”
 




Dunkstar

Active member
Jul 6, 2003
2,428
Up a Hill
What about...

"I'm a firm believer that you have to score one more than the opposition to win"-Howard Wilkinson

And if we are doing Neitszche

"Stare not into the abyss or the abyss shall stare back into you":blues:
 












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