Portsmouth Quotes

• I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.

  Roy Rogers

  Ohio, Agriculture, Littles

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• I never saw Portsmouth by day.

  Quentin Crisp

  Saws

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 13, 1968.

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• To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads.

  Herman Melville

  Past, Victory, Hull

  Herman Melville (2016). “Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories”, p.166, Penguin

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• David Nugent tore up the Championship but he’s gone to Portsmouth and he’s a fish up a tree

  Paul Merson

  Tree, Gone, Championship

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• Portsmouth are at Huddersfield, which is always away

  Jimmy Greaves

  Soccer, Funny Soccer

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• Younes Kaboul is a vital clog in the Portsmouth engine

  Bobby Gould

  Engines

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• I don't want to go to Portsmouth or any other club that has no ambitions.

  Benni McCarthy

  Ambition, Clubs, Want

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