Newcastle Quotes

• If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

  John Prescott

  Years, Twenties, Looks

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• We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

  Bobby Robson

  Funny, Soccer, Stupid

  "Faded FA Cup glimmering again" by Roger Bennett, www.espn.com. January 4, 2013.

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• We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

  Bobby Robson

  Football, Player, Feet

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• Home advantage gives you an advantage

  Bobby Robson

  Soccer, Home, Giving

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• When Gazza was dribbling he used to go through a minefield with his arm, a bit like you go through a supermarket.

  Bobby Robson

  Arms, Like You, Newcastle United

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• Newcastle fans never cease to amaze me. If there was a trophy for best supporters this lot would win it hands down every year.

  Alan Shearer

  Winning, Hands, Years

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• What Newcastle lack is a lack of pace

  Charlie Nicholas

  Pace

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• People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life.

  Alan Shearer

  Football, Live Life, Weekend

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• I want to be around when Newcastle win a trophy because I want to see this place lift off. It will be one hell of a party for a long time.

  Alan Shearer

  Party, Winning, Long

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• Pardew has come out and criticized me. He is the worst at haranguing referees. He shoves them and makes a joke of it. How he can criticize me is unbelievable. He forgets the help I gave him, by the way. The press have had a field day. The only person they have not spoken to is Barack Obama because he is busy. It is unfortunate but I am the manager of the most famous club in the world. Not Newcastle, a wee club in the North-East. I was demonstrative. I am always demonstrative. Everyone knows that. I am an emotional guy but I was not abusive.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Emotional, Guy

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• The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

  Horace Walpole

  Coal, Fuel, Sun

  Horace Walpole, George Montagu (1837). “The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others].: 1760-1769”, p.407

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• I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

  Alan Rickman

  Thinking, Actors, Nervous

  "Alan Rickman & Rupert Grint On ‘CBGB,’ Reuniting Post-‘Potter’ And Favorite Halloween Costumes". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2013.

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• I did as well as I could at Newcastle.

  Alan Pardew

  Wells

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• We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant to be on a cushy wicket in the South. If you go up to Newcastle, you can tell that the town's really had money, or Liverpool, you know, the northern towns have got grandeur, whereas Medway, being just a sort of garrison town and dockyard town, you don't have anything like Earl Grey Square or anything like that.

  Billy Childish

  Squares, Towns, Unemployment

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• I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels.

  Jonathan Pearce

  Soccer, Football, Garden

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• If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for some less - the weaker should be given more chance than the strong. In other words, a Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. For greater help must be given to him whom nature has not endowed with an acute intellect from birth. It is a madman who carries coals to Newcastle. The poor, the downtrodden, the ignorant, let these be your God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Strong, Son

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2840, Manonmani Publishers

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• I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.

  Peter Beardsley

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I've turned down Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Manchester United to play here. I hope everyone already knows how much it means to me to play for Newcastle United.

  Alan Shearer

  Mean, Play, Juventus

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• No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

  George V

  Paris, Coal

  In conversation with Anthony Eden, 23 December 1935, following Samuel Hoare's resignation as Foreign Secretary on 18 December 1935, in Earl of Avon 'Facing the Dictators' (1962) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• I can categorically say I will not be putting my hat in the ring. It's not something I have ever coveted and it's not a position I am interested in taking up at this point in time. I am loyal to Newcastle and they have been fabulous to me. I feel that is where my responsibility lies.

  Rob Andrew

  Lying, Responsibility, Deceit

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• It is a certainty that Keegan would not have agreed to return unless Mike Ashley had committed to sanctioning a mammoth spending spree. The downside, which Keegan will soon discover, is the law of diminishing returns in a league that is now the richest in the world. The type of multi-million-pound investment that bankrolled the first Newcastle revival under Keegan is now two-a-penny. Buying success just isn't as easy as it used to be. The Premiership's paradox is that the more money there is, the more the art of management gains in value.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Art

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• Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millionaire.

  Kevin Keegan

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I would play in any number shirt for Newcastle United, but the No 9 at Newcastle is something very special and I've always wanted to wear it. I mentioned it to the manager, he mentioned it to Les and Les has been very kind and given it to me.

  Alan Shearer

  Play, Numbers, Special

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• I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.

  Alan Shearer

  Blood, Play, Clubs

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• There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

  Alan Shearer

  Possibility, Bigs, Managers

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