Quotes About Geordie

As a kid, I was school swot, but I used to hang around the billiard halls, learning that Geordie sense of humour, mixing with low-lifes. They were the sort who'd pick your pocket and then say 'Here you are lad, here's tuppence, get yourself some chips'. I was a good rugby player, a good runner, so I fitted in at Cambridge quite easily.

Geordie wrote a letter to Mr. Webster in which the shrieking figure of Apology was hounded through a labyrinth of agonized syntax.

I was player-manager at Sheffield United. I played my last ever game for them. It was terrible. We lost 4-1, I think to Sunderland. Fancy that, a Geordie, being forced to retire because of a defeat to Sunderland.

I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where to put me, but I like that.

Even when a Geordie is trying to be nasty, it doesn't sound that threatening.

I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.

For any Geordie, if you can't manage to play for Newcastle, then to get back and manage them it's something special.

I'm a Newcastle lad, so to be manager is every Geordie's dream.