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It only takes a second to score a goal.
Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.
My wife says OBE stands for Old Big 'Ead.
The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.
They love me for what I'm not They hate me for what I am.
Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.
You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday.
We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch.
I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.
If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.
I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.
I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years’ time.
I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.
Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.
What young men nowadays don't realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.
Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships.
My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.
To me, scoring goals was just like other boys might regard delivering papers. I just did it - every day.
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!
If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.
What joy and adventure the youngsters of today are missing as they sit indoors mucking about with computer games and videos!
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
Women who choose to stay home and raise their families make one of the most valuable contributions to society. as far as I am concerned.
The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.
On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.
My early memories are full of football talk around the house, of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park, of the occasional precious new pair of boots.
Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.
Believe it or not, cricket was my first love. I would genuinely have swapped the dream of a winning goal at Wembley for a century against the Australians at Lord's.
I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.
Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.
Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.
Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody.
We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.