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1. "They
didn't change positions, they just moved the players around."
Terry Venables
2. "You can
see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and
ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or
if the man goes past, they'll take the ball."
Ron Atkinson
3. "What
disappointed me was that we didn't play with any passion. I'm not
disappointed, you know, I'm just disappointed."
Kevin Keegan
4. "The new
season will be all about scoring more goals than the opposition."
Alvin Martin
5. "If Glenn
Hoddle said one word to his team at half-time, it was concentration and
focus."
Ron Atkinson
6. "They (Swindon)
are still finding that they are much happier when they have the ball than
when the other side has it."
Ron Jones
7. "He's
caused the Chelsea defence no amount of problems."
Jimmy Armfield
8. "We
deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half."
Kevin Keegan
9. "Without
being too harsh on David, he cost us the match."
Ian Wright
10. "The important thing
is that he shook hands with us over the phone."
Alan Ball
11. "Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go
on to win them. But they may draw some – or occasionally lose.”
A
thoughtful David Pleat
12. "Chile have three
options - they could win or they could lose."
Kevin Keegan
13. "The problem at
Wimbledon seems to be that the club has suffered a loss of complacency."
Joe Kinnear
14. "He has got his
tactics wrong tactically."
Mick Quinn
15. "He reminds me of
a completely different version of Robbie Earle."
Mark Lawrenson
16. "The substitute is
about to come on - he's a player who was left out of the starting line-up
today."
Kevin Keegan
17. "I always used to put my
right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock."
Barry Venison
18. "A tremendous strike
which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off."
Kevin Keegan
19. "Lampard fired straight through the middle of a non-existent
wall."
Paul McKenna
20. "A win would be
better than a draw."
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And
here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few
weeks ago"
(David Coleman)
"Once Tony Daley opens his legs you've got a problem"
(Howard Wilkinson)
"Its a great advantage to be able to hurdle with both legs"
(David Coleman)
"We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the
race, only exactly the opposite"
(Murray Walker)
"After playing Cameroon in the 1990 world cup finals: "We didn't
underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought"
(Bobby Robson)
"And with an alphabetical irony, Nigeria follows New Zealand"
(David Coleman)
On the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living in Italy:
"It was like being in a foreign country"
(Ian
Rush)
"Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get
his leg over, prefers to use his left hand."
(Ted Lowe)
"Ah! Isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge President is kissing the
cox of the Oxford crew"
(Harry Carpenter)
Jimmy Hill : "Don't sit on the fence Terry. What chance do you
think Germany has of getting through?
Terry
Venables : "I think it's 50-50."
"Hodge scored for Forest after 22 seconds - totally against the run of
play"
(Peter Lorenzo)
"We actually got the winner three minutes from the end but then they
equalised"
(Ian McNail)
"I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a
lifetime for that prat"
(Ron Atkinson)
"I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost"
(Frank Bruno)
"Henry Horton's got a funny stance. It looks as if he's shitting on a
sooting stick."
(Brian Johnstone)
"There's going to be a real ding-dong when the bell goes."
(David
Coleman)
"There is
Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20,000 people"
(David
Coleman)
"The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is
identical"
(Murray
Walker)
"I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel"
(Stuart
Pearce)
"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father"
(Greg
Norman)
"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them
serious"
(Alan
Minter)
"Watch the time - it gives you an indication of how fast they are running"
(Ron
Pickering)
"Just under 10 seconds for Nigel Mansel. Call it 9.5 seconds in round
numbers"
(Murray
Walker)
"Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil
than English sides like Wales"
(Ron
Greenwood)
"A brain Scan revealed that Andrew Caddick is not suffering from stress
fracture of the shin"
(Jo
Sheldon)
The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation"
(Ron
Pickering)
That's inches away from being millimetre perfect"
(Ted
Lowe)
"Bobby Gould thinks I'm trying to stab him in the back. In fact I'm right
behind him"
(Stuart
Pearson)
"I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right"
(Marlon
Starling)
"If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing
again"
(Terry
Venables)
"I can't tell who's leading - It's either Oxford or Cambridge"
(John
Snagge - Boat Race)
"The Queen's Park Oval, exactly as its name suggests - absolutely round."
(Tony Crozier)
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