Jimmy Greaves Quotes

• The biggest regret of my whole football career was leaving White Hart Lane in 1970.....my interest in football weakened after that. I was heartbroken

  Jimmy Greaves

  Heartbroken, Football, Regret

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• Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with the gold gun emblem sewn into their pockets and grey slacks. We couldn’t match their ground with that beautiful main entrance, marble halls and spiral staircase. Even in 1961 when we won the Double, we were never as big a club as Arsenal.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Beautiful, Gun, Player

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• Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Football, Atoms, Tactics

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• We are really the victims of our own problems

  Jimmy Greaves

  Soccer, Funny Soccer, Problem

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• The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Sports, Swearing

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• The only thing Norwich didn't get was the goal that they finally got

  Jimmy Greaves

  Soccer, Goal, Funny Soccer

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• Portsmouth are at Huddersfield, which is always away

  Jimmy Greaves

  Soccer, Funny Soccer, Portsmouth

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• Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Feet, Gold, Hammers

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• He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Soccer, Games, People

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• Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Ambassadors, Britain, Greater

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• I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do

  Jimmy Greaves

  Soccer, Player, Thinking

  Jimmy Greaves, Ian St John (2009). “Saint And Greavsie's Funny Old Games”, p.196, Hachette UK

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