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As a footballer the silence of an away crowd is wonderful to listen to

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, referee

“I wouldn’t say we were the best football goalpost makers in the business but we are certainly in the top one”

It's not a million miles away from being the top of the football league and the bottom.. it's a million pounds

You need to loose sometimes to appreciate your next win

Only perfect practice makes perfect results - never practice mistakes you only make them better

There is no 'I' in the word TEAM

Injuries need... R.I.C.E Rest, Ice, Compression & Elevation

RULE Number one never lose at home RULE Number two never forget rule Number one

I woudn't say our team was the best team in the league but we are in the top one

Good advice is something a footballer gives when he is too old to set a bad example

The average Footballer thinks he isn't

Never believe that the manager is about to leave until it has been officially denied

It is only a game until you start winning more times than you lose

We learn something every day at training and lots of the time it's what we learnt the day before was wrong

Those sitting down to work like bankers, in the main, get paid more than those standing up to work with the exception of professional footballers

Any professional footballer who pays to go and see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined

Don’t practice the skills you can do practice the skills that you cant do in order to learn how to do them so you won't have to practice them

I lie awake at night wondering where the team went wrong" Then a voice says to me after the last result its going to take more than one night"

If winning is not important why do we keep the score

Football teams have wings - Good managers make them fly

Save the earth it's the only planet in the solar system that plays football

Cherish the past football team - Cheer the present football team - Construct the future football team

The height of embarrassment is when silly goal celebrations are performed without first checking that the officials have actually given the goal

Remember the Three R's in football… Responsibility, Risk, Result!

The art of diving during a game is not gamesmanship, just the act of a cheat performing like a stupid idiot

The secret about keeping in the team, is eat well, train well and lie about your age

Never make mistakes on the pitch, at least, never one that you cannot explain away afterwards in the post match interview.

Failure and relegation from your league is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently

The harder any football team works the luckier it gets

The final test of any good chairman and manager is that they leave behind them, in others that follow them, the conviction and the will to carry on

No opponents tactics is as formidable as the will and courage of empowered and motivated players

A good football game is when the price of the Bovril, the sausage roll, the admission and the moaning from the wife, were all worth it

The footballer who wastes time in a game, when he is old, will realise the value of that time

Football is a great sport to be involved in and has a great advantage over cricket as it doesn’t go on as long

The cure for boredom in the game is curiosity.Their is no cure for curiosity

There is only one great happiness in life, to score the winning goal in the eighty ninth minute

I do not mind living in a world that has woman's football in it as long as I can be a man in it

After the game has finished choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other players and managers imperfections, and conceal your own

If you want the rainbow ,winning the league, you need to put up with a little rain

There is always one moment in football when the door opens and lets the future in

Comaradship is the only cement that will ever hold any team together

When asked to try something different some in the game say Why? Some in the game say Why not?

Strive to be the best; when you are the best strive to be better

Honest disagreement in a team can often be a good sign of progress

If you believe in luck you will find the harder you work the more you will have of it

It is always the best policy when managing a club to speak the truth, unless of course, you are an exceptionally good liar

Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get their

A successful team is one that can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others throw at them

Any training session without laughter has been wasted

A real team mate is one who walks in to see you when the rest of the world walks out

The best things about the game of football cannot be seen or touched they must be felt with the heart

Experience is a great advantage in football -the problem is by the time you have it you are too old to use it

EXPERIENCE - simply the name we give to our past mistakes

Any player who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new

The brain is a wonderful organ -it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you step onto a football field

Real Knowledge in the game is to know the extent of one's ignorance

In soccer failure is UN-avoidable & success is elusive

Top clubs provide value for the supporter at the lowest cost whilst at the same time maintaining a strong balance sheet to allow for future development

The best vitamin for a footballer is B1

The Sunday team motto....Win or Loose we're on the Booze !!

Stay focused on the moment -forget next weeks game until next week

You can cover the ground a lot faster with a good pass than you can by running with the ball

Great players are like postage stamps they stick to their team until they get to their destination

Remember the three P's… Persistently Poor Practice = Piss Poor Performance.

HYPOCRISY the pretense of having standards or beliefs in the game that are contrary to ones real character or actual behaviour

Wealth is all well and good in the game but it is absolutely worthless without health

The way to make a small amount of money in football is to start with a large amount of money

Football is about work and play- when you have the ball play when you don't work

CHEATING the act of dishonesty to gain an advantage and an unjust result

If I had a penny every time my chairman was right i would have a penny

You need Commitment-Confidence-Concentration & Composure

Players can be likened to grapes,some become vinegar,the best become wine

There are lots of people that don’t know a thing about the game but their are a lot more that don’t know that they don’t know

The eighty ninth minute is too early to give up

If you don't lose a goal, you don't lose a game

The only problem with being a good sport is that sometime in your life you will need to prove it

We stop playing soccer because we grow old - we grow old because we stop playing soccer

You can spend all your time running for the ball or you can find space and let the ball run to you

The best rule in life is to play soccer on every day ending with a "y"

Players without the ball dictate the actions of players with the ball

Club Chairmen have the amazing talent of deciding what is best for the club then getting someone else to to do it

To play the game well- It is not about the long ball, it is not about the short ball it is all about the right ball

You must first be predictable before you can become unpredictable

Footballs are made round - to go round - pass and move

I have never yet seen a player win an argument with a referee

Referees never get everything right, but they are never wrong

You play soccer between your ears as well as between your feet

No player can argue with a referee and defend at the same time

The best way to spell lose is WIN

If you try you might. If you don't you won't

When you get injured check you have two of everything down the sides and one of everything down the middle

Some players are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire an agent

The striker was a good striker, as strikers go, and as strikers go, he went

Some players arrive late for training, but make up for it by leaving early

Players are like tea bags, you can't tell how strong they are until you put them in hot water

Managers treat players of forty like bank notes, they change them for two twenties

A successful professional footballer is one who makes more money than his wife can spend

If you keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it is possible you haven't grasped the score-line

I had bad luck with both my strikers. The first one left the second one didn't

Diplomacy in management is the art of letting players have your way

It is a well known fact, that the older a player gets, the faster he could run as a boy

Compromise is always wrong in the game when it means sacrificing a principle

The best thing you can take before a match is a good nights sleep

Smile at your opponent after he kicks you Nothing annoys him so much

There is only one crime in soccer, to give the ball to the opposition

The will to win is as important as the skill to win

You don't plan to fail You fail to plan

Do it tomorrow you've made enough mistakes for today

Mental health in the game would improve if everyone acknowledged that referees can make you crazy

Coaching manuals are no more written for coaches than ghost stories are written for ghosts

The only way to get the better of an argument with a referee is to avoid it

Inexperience is what makes a younger player do what an older player knows is impossible

Top players work hard all their life to become known... then they wear dark glasses to avoid being recognized

Mediocre coaches fill you up with the faults they had as players and add some

Great players are made by a good first touch mediocre players by two

Winning is a habit, unfortunately so is losing

You can never attain real success, unless you enjoy what you are doing

A manager is only as good as the players that he signs

Soccer managers have the best job in the world apart from 90 minutes on a Saturday

NO PAIN - NO GAIN

Like a violin a soccer team needs fine tuning before it can perform

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail

The only way a goalkeeper can be sure of catching a cross is to miss the one before

In soccer failure is inevitable and success is elusive

A managers stature is measured by what he does with what he has

Better to go back with the ball & keep possession than always go forward and lose possession

The best gift you can give your players is a good example

0-1 Make sure 0-0 Make sure 1-0 Make sure 2-0 Chance it

There has never been an indispensable player not even you

Don't quit when you're tired - wait until they are

It's not how many times the ball goes over the crossbar it's how many times it goes under

A bad habit in this game is to become accustomed to good luck

Players faults do seldom to themselves appear

In front of goal it isn't a chance if you don't take it

Great managers have the knack of making players think they are better than they think they are!

A good striker will make more opportunities than are given to him

Adversity in this game causes some to break- others to break records

Winners don't quit - Quitters don't win

WINNING always involves some risk

Some players are so independent you cannot depend upon them

Some players make things happen some watch things happen while others wonder what has happened

The boss is always early when you are late & late when you are early

If at first you don't succeed you are running about average

In soccer it's what you learn after you know it all, that counts

The only place where winning comes before work is in the dictionary

You will always miss 100% of the shots you don't take

You only have 90 minutes to get a result, but if you work it right 90 minutes is enough

In order to be a winner, you must be prepared to lose sometime

You can't change last weeks result but you can change this weeks

Even if your team's on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there

Great soccer teams need landing gear as well as wings

The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running

Some players are likened to wheel barrows only useful when pushed and very easily upset

It's time to hang your boots up when regrets take the place of dreams

Soccer is full of willing people, some willing to work - others willing to let them

If the blind lead the blind they get relegated!

Those who choose not to remember defeat are condemned to repeat the experience

PROFESSIONALISM Performance at constantly higher levels than others

Success is a journey not a destination

To be a WINNER all you need is to give all you have

The difference between a successful team & the others is not a lack of strength nor a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will

The goalkeeper who can smile when he's just conceded a goal has thought of someone he can blame it on

The player good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else

Seven days without training makes one WEAK

Let the ball do the work it doesn't get tired

Pain is Temporary Pride is Forever

The best individuals for your club are those who are afraid to let you down but never do!

A young pair of legs may run faster but an old pair of legs more often than not runs in the right direction

If you can't find fault in your own game then you need a second opinion

Every player should use what Mother Nature gave them before Father time takes it away

A game of two halves is still only one game one result

Educated soccer comments often fall on barren ground but praise and kind words are never thrown away

Always try and give your coach more than they expect to get

I'm not afraid to lose I just don't want to be around when it happens!

The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running

Play with confidence, otherwise you will keep on losing, and losing becomes a habit

GAMESMANSHIP The art of trying to win a game without actually cheating

TEAM SPIRIT the willingness to work for the good of ones team rather than oneself

Some teams dream of winning the league while others stay awake and do it!

Soccer Players are numbered just in case they get lost

In this game individuals don't succeed... teams do

We first make our soccer habits then our soccer habits make us

Anything scarce is valuable - praise for example

You achieve results by having faith in your team mates - Choose to think and believe the best about them

It isn't always how much we talk but how attentively we listen

Teamwork means more WE and less ME

Every match is a portrait of those playing - autograph your game with excellence

Together Everyone Achieves More

Better to go back with the ball and keep possession than always go forward and lose possession

A good result only happens when you care enough to do your best

Attitude it's a little thing that makes a lot of difference

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the little extra

Mistakes on the pitch are the lessons from which we learn

Pass the BALL not the BUCK

WINNING is not important WINNING in style is!