Quotes from Mike Ashley

I accept House of Fraser cannot have 500,000 square feet in Birmingham. Honestly, you would need an Uber to take you round. It's ridiculous.

I am wedded to Newcastle like Sports Direct. They've got me and I've got them. That's just the way it is.

I wanted to help Newcastle, I wanted to make it better. I do not seem to have had that effect.

I periodically lose my phone, damage my phone, have my phone stolen - what ever happens to mobile phones happens to me.

I'm not sitting in my office stroking a white cat... I find it very frustrating: what benefit have I got of closing stores?

What person could keep 59 stores open - beside God? It's impossible, it can't be done.

I will go to the ends of the earth to save as many Debenhams stores and jobs as I can, similar to the promise I made with regards to House of Fraser.

Sports Direct is on course to become the 'Selfridges of sport' by migrating to a new generation of stores.

Alan Shearer came in at a time when he was one of the only people on this planet who could have kept Newcastle up and he did a fantastic job in everything else but the odd result not going his way.

Kevin Keegan is an outstanding individual and also did his best. It wasn't always easy for Kevin at the football club. We didn't have the structure around that we should have had to support him. I will take responsibility for that.

It is true that I have conducted and do conduct business discussions in an informal environment form time to time. However I don't just turn up to a venue with someone and negotiate a binding agreement over few hours over drinks.

What we would like to do is introduce a 'concierge click and collect' at House of Fraser. When you go online and say you want to collect goods in-store, you should be able to book a time, book a changing room and book a stylist.

I didn't know Alan Pardew before football at all.

I like to get drunk, I'm a power drinker.

It is blatantly apparent that true entrepreneurs will never be accepted in the public arena.

In Harrods you get some exceptional services.

If rules make a framework for the mind to climb about in, why should the mind not climb right out?

Those that can, do; those that can't, teach; and those that can't teach, administrate.

How and why sub-quark wave events are captured and read, how they let us view the past, and why they show us only possible pasts, is difficult to explain. So instead of a technical lecture, I'm going to engage in what popular science journalists call "oversimplification". In academia, we call this "lying".

clear as a pikestaff.

Then Ellie found herself sitting at a table in the bar of the Algonquin Hotel, back in New York City. Nadine was sitting opposite her.

shacked up with the pilot man, right? And this one: They were all transfigured by higher beings: *STENDEC* Val Garner, presenter of Impossible

Probably the master of the time-dislocation story was J. G. Ballard. His view, evident in much of his short fiction, was that time was degrading and this resulted in

right, until he found just the right words – not too difficult words, but words with some fire and juice in them.