Quotes About Football

Gary Mabbutt is a living history of Tottenham Hotspur. The refusal to limit his life because of diabetes, the determination to go on playing in spite of injuries, shows the measure of the man. 'Legend' is a word that's applied rather too freely when it comes to describing footballers. When it comes to Gary Mabbutt, it's the only one you can use.

But if any football manager should have been honoured, it was Bill Nicholson. The Double, the trophies, the glory nights, the confident, emphatic assertion that an English club could be the equal of any in Europe – Nicholson's Tottenham Hotspur did it all first.

Spurs became the first football club to have a listing on the Stock Exchange. The flotation, which raised £3.8 million, was over-subscribed by three-and-a-half times.

The fact is,' David Lacey wrote in The Guardian, 'that failing to finish opponents off is one of the prime reasons why Tottenham, after playing some of the most attractive football, have ended the season without a prize.

On Trial – Spurs are giving a month's trial to an amateur, Wm. E. Nicholson, an inside-right of Scarborough Working Men's Club. He recently celebrated his 17th birthday. His height is 5ft 8in and weight 10st 12lb.

I know that being ridiculed for being a Spurs fan is part of the deal and that this team will tear my heart out more times than it will make me leap for joy, but I have made my choice. I can't wait for the glory, glory nights yet to come.

I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

I won't be intimidated by any player or team, I think that is fundamental in football if you want to do well.

I'm not afraid of any competition. I'm not going to be intimidated by any player or team. That is fundamental in football if you want to do well.

It's intimidating to come out and hear the 'Skol' chant.

I was once in charge of the Dutch team - and then I was introduced to club football!

All of my football, even my introduction, even my coaches, most of them came from Europe, particularly England. So pretty much my whole footballing education and introduction was through English football.

One thing I am sure about Manchester is that people are proud of their history. They are proud of their football, music, the industrial revolution, and all the amazing things that were invented here.

For us, for me as national coach, the Nations League is a good invention.

If you dont invest in grassroots and if you dont invest in youth football, then its inevitable that youll pay the price somewhere down the track.

Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.

There's no shortage of investment into Manchester United.

I think if you don't have a style, it makes you invisible in football.

Those of us involved in football must be aware of the power we have to help. We also have a responsibility to return to society all that society has given to us.

Football is very cinema friendly and the intense competition that the game involves only charges up the atmosphere. This cannot be achieved with cricket.

Playing in Europe has been very good for our players in making progress and if more come here then I think it will help Iranian football.

When you were away with Ireland, you didn't really have that much coaching. It was more of five-a-side, or 11-a-side game, and that would be it.

Gaelic football is a very Irish sport, which I played.

The irony is, when people now compliment my ability to make something out of nothing on the football field, my mom is the one who's been doing so in real life all along.