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Quotes About Leeds

I have no bad feelings towards Leeds. The fans were amazing and I hope, for their sake especially, that they get what they deserve.
~ Kasper Schmeichel
I know Leeds have had a few Scottish captains but I don't look too much to that because you can get lost in the history of the club. There's so much good history but it's all about the present and the future.
~ Ross McCormack
I remember getting my first Leeds shirt, me and my brother.
~ Kalvin Phillips
I've been fortunate enough to play for Leeds and Anderlecht, who are massive in Belgium.
~ Kemar Roofe
I remember my first Christmas with Leeds, training Christmas Day. I wasn't old enough to drive yet - so I had to get picked up and taken in!
~ James Milner
Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.
~ Jonathan Woodgate
Leeds United is one of England's greatest and most well-supported clubs with a rich history known all over the world.
~ Andrea Radrizzani
Forget typing," Pamela wrote from Leeds, "you should read philosophy at university, you have the right kind of mind for it. Like a terrier with a terrifically tedious bone.")
~ Kate Atkinson
There are stains on their knees, stains on their arses. Dirty Leeds.
~ David Peace
There is always doubt and always fear. There is always trouble, always tension. Tension and trouble; fear and doubt; war, war, war and then, right on cue- As if by magic, here come Leeds, Leeds, Leeds.
~ David Peace
You'll do for me," you tell him. "If you do as you're bloody told." "I'd rather play for fucking Leeds," he tells you. "You'd fucking fit right in and all," you laugh. "But they don't bloody want you, do they?
~ David Peace
They weren't bad, were they? I thought Johnny Giles was ace." "Fuck off," I tell him. "You can bloody walk back to Leeds for that.
~ David Peace
I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.
~ Geoffrey Boycott
I've got my life and 'Harry Potter,' where I travel the world, I make films, I meet amazing people, I do press junkets and stuff. And then I go back home to Leeds, where I live, and I've got the same friends from before.
~ Matthew Lewis
I support Leeds United, and like any fan, I dreamed of playing for them. I tried out at the club and also tried rugby and cricket, and triathlon didn't really become part of my life until I was 16 or 17 - but it was the sport I enjoyed most.
~ Jonathan Brownlee
My family are all Leeds fans, they always tell me about the times when Leeds were in the Premier League.
~ Kalvin Phillips
There is hope to catch up, as long as Leeds get to the Premier League. I feel with a project an idea and people of quality we can close the gap on clubs with a different budget.
~ Andrea Radrizzani
I'd love to get into the Premier League with Leeds.
~ Robert Snodgrass
For Leeds, we have a history of being 'dirty Leeds' and we actually channel that. We want to play great football and we are doing that but we also need to fight every time we go on to the pitch.
~ Andrea Radrizzani
I was growing up around Leeds and I idolised Leeds. I went to Huddersfield and thought it was a good chance but I got there and felt like I didn't really fancy it.
~ Kalvin Phillips
I started an all-girl band called Helen when I was 15. It wasn't a precocious thing to do - everyone we knew was in a band, and all the bars and pubs in Leeds put on nights.
~ Corinne Bailey Rae
The crazy thing about my story is that I only came to Leicester City because Leeds didn't want me. A lot of footballers say that, and it's almost a cliche. But the chairman literally told me that they didn't want me.
~ Kasper Schmeichel
At Leeds the idea of an international labour organization appeared in a trade-union text which also drew attention to the danger to the working classes inherent in the existence of international capitalist competition.
~ Leon Jouhaux
My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.
~ Lionel Barber