Quotes About Southampton

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I had been released by Southampton and was back playing Sunday League football when I signed for Bournemouth. I grew to love the club.

A coach was managing the Newbury team, and he wanted me to play for his local team, and from there, I did it at district level, and then I got picked for Southampton.

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

I'm enjoying the Premier League; I'm enjoying playing for Southampton - I love the club, and I love the supporters.

I had beautiful years with Southampton - great club, great people, great supporters - and I'm very proud of my four years.

The summer after college, I got a job as a chef at Conscience Point Inn in Southampton. I spent the summer on the water and cemented my expertise with seafood. I've always gravitated toward places that do seafood.

Football-wise, I help with my 12-year-old and his team, and I play football on a Friday with my mates and that's about it. I always look out for results at Rovers and Southampton mainly, and I go and watch Liverpool when I can.

I've always liked the way Southampton play football, high intensity and really aggressive playing. The way they play with the full-backs I'm not going to be sitting back for the whole game, it is going to give me opportunities to get forward and show what I can give in attack.

Football is a fickle game - if I do get the jeers and the boos I'm just going to take it as them missing me playing down there because I miss Southampton. I miss the fans and I miss the good times we had down there. Of course I do.

Full compliments to everybody in Southampton because the support of the fans was amazing and the spirit and the belief of the players, it's very enjoyable for the manager.

I had a good contract at Southampton, the managers in the Premier League are very well paid, but in football you need ambition.

I enjoyed English football from day one when I was with Southampton.

Her awards included not only honors from the US Navy – a Presidential Unit Citation, a Navy Unit Commendation and 20 battle stars for her flag – but also a rare honor from the Royal Navy. She became, when she stopped at Southampton in November 1945, the only non-Royal Navy warship ever awarded an Admiralty Pennant.

Southampton have all the advantages to create good players; when you compare it to Serbia, Southampton has the better facilities. They can produce a player who is much more ready.

Alan Pardew brought me to Southampton and was a great influence and then we had consecutive promotions under Nigel Adkins.

The best player I've played with is Adam Lallana. I just think he's quality. He's both footed. When I was playing with him at Southampton I kept asking him what foot he is. He said 'I'm both.' I was like well everyone's dominant one foot and he was like 'no I'm both.'

People at school used to assume I was going to be a footballer, and it wasn't until I got to 16, when I was at Southampton, that I had a doubt for the first time in my life. Southampton said I wasn't big enough, but it was just because I hadn't grown. Simple as that.

I have a wonderful flat in Southampton and sometimes after games I have friends and family round and we have very nice evenings - especially after wins.

I had a great time at Southampton and will always be thankful for that.

I will always love Southampton. I had a great time down there.

He laughed and came forward impulsively to kiss her—his affection a potent thing, a flourish of light. She was smiling, her tears feeling fresh on her face. He smelled of sweat and roses. She felt it in the palms of her hands, in her loins. It was right. It was Southampton she had wanted all along.

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.