League Quotes - Page 20

• Shut your noise, you old c***!

  Alan Pardew

  Football, Noise

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• 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

  Football, Running, Games

  "QPR boss Harry Redknapp slams 'overweight' Adel Taarabt after leaving him out of Liverpool defeat" by Liam Prenderville, www.mirror.co.uk. October 19, 2014.

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• 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

  Football, Running, Games

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• I like Arsene for his principles but principles are sort of a restriction and restrictions are always lost possibilities.

  Alisher Usmanov

  Football, Principles, Possibility

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• It could end up like the Dog & Duck against the Red Lion.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Dog, Ducks

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• He's worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.

  Simon Mignolet

  Football, Coffins, Lines

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• It was Tottenham at home. I thought: 'Please don't go on about Tottenham, we all know what Tottenham are about. They are nice and tidy but we'll f****** do them.' Alex came in and said: 'Lads, it's only Tottenham.' And that was it! Brilliant!

  Roy Keane

  Football, Nice, Home

  "Roy Keane says he and Alex Ferguson were on same wavelength at United" by James Riach, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2014.

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• I got Robbie's mobile number and rang him. It went to his voicemail: 'Hi, it's Robbie - whazzup!' Like the Budweiser ad. I never called him back. I thought: 'I can't be f****** signing that'.

  Roy Keane

  Football, Numbers, Budweiser

  "The Second Half". Book by Roy Keane and Roddy Doyle, 2014.

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• We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.

  David Moyes

  Football, Couple, Needs

  "David Moyes admits Manchester United aspire to be more like arch-rivals City" by Ed Malyon, www.mirror.co.uk. March 25, 2014.

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• My fellow players are sometimes occupying the spaces I want to play in. That forces me to adjust my runs, based on the position of my fellow players. Unfortunately, they're often playing in my zones. I think that's a shame

  Robin van Persie

  Football, Running, Player

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• Everything is s*** because we lost.

  Ronald Koeman

  Football, Lost

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• Alan Schwarz of the New York Times calls up the NFL to get a response, and what he gets from Greg Aiello, the league spokesman, is more denials. They are now denying their own study.

  Steve Fainaru

  New York, Nfl, Denial

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• I said to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello, 'You realize that's the first time anybody associated with the league has made that connection?' And I remember, he was a litttle... annoyed. He was annoyed.

  Alan Schwarz

  Nfl, Annoyed, Connections

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• I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.

  Luis Suarez

  Football, Strong, Pain

  "Luis Suárez recognises no limits, either good or bad" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2014.

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• Javier Pastore wouldn't get a beach ball off me if we were locked in a phone box. He's turd. Anyone who thinks he isn't is clueless.

  Joey Barton

  Football, Beach, Clueless

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• Remy Cabella, I think he deserves something else than Newcastle. I wouldn't go there. You must get bored s***less in Newcastle.

  Louis Nicollin

  Football, Thinking, Bored

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• I've seen the slip a few times. I don't have to watch something like that to go through the pain again and again and again.

  Steven Gerrard

  Football, Pain, Watches

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• England is a very strong league, with three or four of the best teams in Europe, but, if I had played there, I would have destroyed it, like I have everywhere else.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Football, Strong, Team

  "Zlatan Ibrahimovic: I'd have DESTROYED Premier League defences if I'd moved to England" by Dave Kidd, www.mirror.co.uk. February 23, 2014.

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• Arsenal could have happened, as everybody knows, but I would not do a trial. Who do you think regrets that more - Arsene Wenger or Zlatan?

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Football, Regret, Thinking

  "Zlatan Ibrahimovic: I'd have DESTROYED Premier League defences if I'd moved to England" by Dave Kidd, www.mirror.co.uk. February 23, 2014.

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• Maybe Louis does have a golden willy.

  Arjen Robben

  Football, Doe, Golden

  "World Cup 2014 talking points: is Van Gaal lucky or is it a steel nerve?" by Nick Miller and Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2014.

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• You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Thinking, Swans

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• I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Needs, Tubs

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• 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

  Football, Lucky, Sticks

  "Manchester United's Sir Alex Ferguson v Blackpool's Ian Holloway: Who is the king of quotes?". www.goal.com. January 25, 2011.

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• The dietician is going to get rid of that when he comes in. Although, first, we've got to get a dietician.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Firsts, Premier League

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• 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

  Football, Half, Might

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