Premier League Quotes - Page 2

• I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

  Peter Shilton

  Football, Mean, League

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• I never worried about teams who spend what they want to spend. It never bothered me. At the moment we have a lot of Middle Eastern owners, we have American owners of course, Russian owners. It never bothered me one bit. All I was concerned about was that we at United maintained our level of expectation, be competitive, be at the top part of the Premier League.

  Alex Ferguson

  Team, League, Expectations

  Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

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• Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

  Gary Neville

  Winning, Player, Years

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• I had to wait nine days for a letter that said a lot of very silly things.

  Michael Laudrup

  Football, Silly, League

  "Michael Laudrup hits out over 'silly' sacking by Swansea City". www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Manchester United might not win Premier League every year, but we'd always be up there competing for it every year.

  Alex Ferguson

  Winning, Years, League

  "Read the Fergie interview transcript... on holding grudges, listening to American Civil War tapes on the way to work, handling Man United's millionaires and why he thinks Pele is THE all-time No 1". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 2, 2013.

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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, League, Lucky

  "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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• We want to do what is good for Cardiff and for the long-term survival, and hopefully Cardiff can be around for a long time and, God willing, be around in the Premier League.

  Vincent Tan

  Long, League, Survival

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• Amid all the negativity at Newcastle, we achieved some great things. Finishing fifth in the Premier League with a great team was a fine effort and we also got to the quarterfinals of the Europa League and nearly got past a Benfica side that went to the final. They were great days, great nights at St James' Park and I remember them with affection. Maybe they are forgotten too quickly.

  Alan Pardew

  Team, Past, Night

  Source: www.espnfc.com

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• I would not want to be the Europa League in the current format, that's for sure. Thursday night games are difficult to contend with given the level of physicality we deal with in the Premier League. We struggled with it at Newcastle and we were not alone in that among the English clubs. Until that issue is addressed, no Premier League team wants to be in the Europa League. That's the reality, even if some don't want to admit it.

  Alan Pardew

  Team, Night, Reality

  Source: www.espnfc.com

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• I love the introduction of international managers and players into the Premier League. However Manchester United's principles through their history had always been: they will appoint a British manager, there will always promote youth, they will always play a certain style of football, they will always look to entertain. So to me the idea of appointing a British manager, David Moyes, appointing somebody who deserved that opportunity to step up, was the right principle.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Opportunity, Player

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• In terms of not retiring? I don't want to leave and think to myself, "Maybe I should have stayed a bit longer". I'm dwelling on it. I have turned down a few Premier League offers. But the fact is, after being at Chelsea for so long and a year with Manchester City, I don't want to get involved in a relegation dogfight.

  Frank Lampard

  Thinking, Cities, Dwelling

  "JAMIE CARRAGHER INTERVIEWS FRANK LAMPARD: Foul-mouthed clashes, Steven Gerrard's emotional bouquet and why ex-Chelsea man still hasn't retired". Interview With Jamie Carragher, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 27, 2017.

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• I had the chance to play for a lot of different teams in the Premier League, but I think all the choices I made were the right ones. I could name a lot - with Gremio, PSG, Barcelona, Milan, Flemengo Mineiro. I was lucky enough to score a few goals, and they were all beautiful.

  Ronaldinho

  Beautiful, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• The Premier League is the No1 league in the world in many areas. The events, the shocks, the production, the viewing figures, the worldwide audience are by far the best. Do I think at this moment in time it's got the highest quality levels in Europe in terms of Champions League football and domination of that area? In quality terms it needs to rise again to get to that point where it's by far the best in all areas.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Thinking, Champions League

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• If you want to think about cooking, and it's a high-five, laid back motion, then flip burgers and dress Caesar salad, don't try to pitch in the premier league of restaurant. Build up to it, by all means.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Mean, Thinking, League

  "Q&A: Gordon Ramsay On 'Hell's Kitchen'". Interview with Rick Ellis, allyourscreens.com. July 17, 2009.

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• In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.

  Louis Susman

  Sports, League, Prominent

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• As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.

  Arsene Wenger

  Sorry, Winning, Player

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• I'd have to say Thierry Henry. From the ages of ten to 16, watching him in the Premier League was amazing and he scored all different types of goals - free-kicks, volleys, left foot, right foot. He was entertaining. He's probably the best centre-forward, I think, to play in the Premier League.

  Wayne Rooney

  Thinking, Play, Feet

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• The best player I ever played against is Thierry Henry. He was something else; i've played against Rooney and Ronaldo and players like that but i think he was the best player ever to play in the Premier League

  Jamie Carragher

  Player, Thinking, League

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• Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the language filthy and the audience screamed behind you'' as tackles hurtled in like boulders crashing down a mountain-side. Such was the epic drama that gripped the Emirates yesterday. A derby crammed with sound, fury and significance ended with everyone grasping for breath, with Arsenal regaining the high ground of the Premier League... This was the Premier League at its raw, mistake-filled, mesmerising best. Utterly compelling.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Mistake

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• But before Derby go, would they mind telling the rest of the Premier League - the league which it has debased with its pathetically-inadequate presence for the past 12 months - where the money has gone? You know, the £30m or so in prize money that every team, even the one at the bottom of the table from August to May, automatically receives by being in the Premier League... So what happened to that money? Or put another way, why was such a meaningless fraction of it spent on recruiting new players? It's one thing not to compete; it's quite another not to even attempt to do so.

  Pete Gill

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• When you're cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.

  Gordon Ramsay

  League, Cooking, Restaurants

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

  Arsene Wenger

  Player, Working Very Hard, League

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• When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.

  Gareth Bale

  Block, Team, Winning

  "Real Madrid target Gareth Bale insists Spanish football is tops - and admits he'd like to play in La Liga" by Ben Curtis, www.mirror.co.uk. July 2, 2013.

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• You have different levels of players. There's are Premier League, international and world-class levels. The world-class level is players at the peak of their career and there's only maybe 50 maximum in the whole world. Stevie moved from a Premier League player to an international player and then world class.

  Gerard Houllier

  Player, Class, Careers

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• I am not taking legal action against any team-mate.

  Saido Berahino

  Football, Team, League

  "Saido Berahino rules out legal action after row with James Morrison" by Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2014.

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