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Quote Sport Unquote

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Football - Arthur Rowe to Terry Yorath

 

I can’t see a more simple way to play than in triangles; get the ball, give it, and then support the man you’ve given it to. There just aren’t that many people who can put a 40 yard pass into the path of another man who’s had to run 30 yards to get there. So you just do simple things and do them accurately. Now if you’ve got players whose skills transcend that, sure let them get on with it. You don’t tell them how to play. You say Go out there and get on with it.

Arthur Rowe.

 

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Bill Shankly, usually misquoted as 'football is more serious than life and death'

 

(Tom) Finney would have been great in any team, in any match in any age - even if he had been wearing an overcoat.

Bill Shankly

 

I must have lost count. I thought it was 19-0.

Alex Smith, Stirling Albion manager after 20-0 win over Selkirk

 

Football and cookery are the two most important subjects in the country.

Delia Smith, TV cook, author and director of Norwich City FC.

 

Recently my coach underwent a course on Attacking Football run by the FA. He didn’t see a goal scored in the whole week.

Alec Stock

 

If Stan (Bowles) could pass a betting shop like he can pass a ball he’d have no trouble at all.

Ernie Tagg, Manager of Crewe

 

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they were quite intelligent.

Raquel Welch

 

The country was frightened of skill; and still is. First we’ve got to stamp out the violence. Then people like myself who are in charge of teams have got to make them play good football. We must put the artist ahead of the artisan. People won’t pay to see trash. If they want aimless kicking down the field they can get it on a public park every Sunday morning for free. If they want to see runners they can go to the athletics and see Cram and Ovett. People aren’t daft.

Frank Worthington, then manager of Tranmere

 

Some of the fans see me as the new Messiah, but I like to say to my players: One day you’re the greatest, the next you’re a plonker

Terry Yorath, manager Swansea City.