Your Favourite Quotes
"We're almost in France, man!"
"I'm an idealist. I believe in fairies."
"Kunta Kinte... yabba dabba dabba doo"
"I hire you to do this job because I think you're the best young manager in this country"
"Well thank you, I'm the best old one too"
"What about McGovern, he was useless in the middle, whose idea was that?"
"Yours."
"Yeah, good lad."
"Baby I just can't do it without you"
"I never said I am the best manager. But I am in the top one."
And all the other one quoted above.
"Football is a beautiful game, Austin. It needs to be played beautifully."
"You lot may all be internationals, and have won all the domestic honours there are to win under Don Revie. But as far as I'm concerned,the first thing you can do for me is to chuck all your medals and all your caps and all your pots and pans into the biggest *beep* dustbin you can find. Because you've never won any of them fairly. You've done it all by bloody cheating."
"The way I see it, there's no point being in this game unless you want to beat the best. And be the best."
"- You know what your job is today?
- Yes, boss. Stay in position. Keep the shape. Stop being the wandering Jew.
- Good lad. Enjoy it. You deserve to. You've worked hard. This week."
"- What? September 30th? That's over a month. That's 6 bloody weeks.
- I'll make it 7 if you carry on with language like that."
"I'm gonna give you some good advice, Brian Clough. No matter how good you think you are or how clever, how many fancy new friends you make on the telly, the reality of footballing life is this: The chairman is the boss, then comes the directors, then the secretary, then the fans, then the players, and then finally, last of all, bottom of the heap, the lowest of the low, comes the one, who in the end, we can all do without: the *beep* manager."
"Dave Mackay? I signed that fat *beep*."
"Bollocks to Don Revie! You're professional footballers. Stop Stan Bowles. That's all you need to know about QPR."
"- The truth is you were down in the Second Division at the time. You know, I probably didn't know who you were.
- Didn't know who I was? Pull the other one.
- That's the truth.
- Well, you certainly know now.
- Oh, we all know now. We know you as the man whose constant outbursts and defaming of his fellow professionals has brought this game, this beautiful game, into disrepute. Who had a good job at Derby, and managed to get the sack. Who had the best partner in Peter Taylor, and threw him away. Who was given one of the greatest gifts in British football, Leeds, a club that in 10 years,
hadn't finished outside the top 4, and took them to the bottom of the First Division. Oh, yes, it's fair to say we all know who you are now."