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Quotes About Spurs

One of the things my dad and I got to bond over was going to the San Antonio Spurs games when Gervin was there, James Silas... I can't remember the rest of the guys' names, but it was a fun time.
~ Shawn Michaels
Take my advice - it is that of your friend, he said, as he swung himself into the saddle. He gathered up the reins and struck spurs into his horse, then turned to call back to me: Sleep upon my words, Ralph, and the next time I come I look to see a farthingale behind thee! Thou art as like to see one upon me, I answered.
~ Mary Johnston
There was one thing, however, that I didn't know: evil is a gift received at birth. There's no acquiring it. Those of us who have not come to this world armed with spurs and fangs are losers in every combat.
~ Maryse Condé
Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.
~ Amelia B. Edwards
Kill them! I shouted and put my spurs back. Kill them. This is what the poets sing about. At night, in the hall, when the hearth smoke thickens about the beams and the ale-horns are filled and the harpist plucks his strings, the songs of battle are sung. They are the songs of our family, of our people, and it is how we remember the past.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I watched a lot of Spurs games before I signed. It's a massive club, one of the biggest in London. They play good football, the stadium is big, and if you look at the training ground - it's perfect.
~ Steven Bergwijn
My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.
~ Edmond Rostand
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.
~ Julie Welch
For impartial observers, there was only one conclusion. And it was a depressing one. Spurs might have been one of the six most beautiful teams. But they just didn't have the bottle.
~ Julie Welch
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.
~ Julie Welch
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
~ Sam Shepard
Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate!
~ Goethe
I saw Spurs as being a very good fit for me - but we were unable to agree financial terms with them... With hindsight, though, that was not a disaster.
~ Georginio Wijnaldum
The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of mustaches.
~ Victor Hugo
Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great ends of preserving and continuing the species.
~ lamb charles ii
Why did I come to Spurs? It just felt right.
~ Christian Eriksen
As San Antonio Spurs players, we have a responsibility for our community.
~ Patty Mills
Always been very comfortable and happy with my role with the Spurs.
~ Manu Ginobili
I would not leave Ajax for nothing. But Spurs are a club that I feel good about. They play good football.
~ Frank de Boer
Everyone wants to play like Spurs. We want to play attractive football, get the ball forward, and create chances with good possession.
~ Christian Eriksen
I'm happy to play for Spurs.
~ Vincent Janssen
Coming to a team like the Spurs, you're automatically going to learn how to play the game the right way.
~ Kawhi Leonard
The Spurs are a great organization.
~ Kawhi Leonard
The whole London football scene is now financially more powerful and ambitious than ever before. That reflects the city's economic might and its multiculturalism. Now West Ham have a new , and Spurs and Chelsea will follow. And the London clubs have widened their areas of support.
~ John Motson