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• Any training session without laughter has been wasted
• There is always one moment in football when the door opens and lets the future in.
• Comradeship is the only cement that will ever hold any team together
• The best things about the game of football cannot be seen or touched they must be felt with the heart
• If at first you don't succeed you are running about average.
• No opponents tactics is as formidable as the will and courage of empowered and motivated players
• When asked to try something different some in the game say Why? Some in the game say Why not?
• Cherish the past team-Cheer the present team -Construct the future team
• If winning is not important why do we keep the score
• Top players work hard all their life to become known... then they wear dark glasses to avoid being recognized
• The secret about keeping in the team,is eat well,train well and lie about your age
• I never make mistakes on the pitch,at least ,never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards in the post match interview.
• A game of two halves is still only one game and one result
• It's not how many times the ball goes over the crossbar it's how many times it goes under
• Don't quit when you're tired - wait until they are
• 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 you try you might. If you don't you won't
• Players can be likened to grapes,some become vinegar,the best become wine.
• Failure and relegation from your league is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently
• Some players make things happen some watch things happen while others wonder what has happened.
• In front of goal it isn't a chance if you don't take it
• Professionalism Performance at constantly higher levels than others
• Together
  Everyone
  Achieves
  More
• Great players are like postage stamps they stick to their team until they get to their destination
• Soccer managers have the best job in the world apart from 90 minutes on a Saturday
• Compromise is always wrong in the game when it means sacrificing a principle
• Diplomacy in management is the art of letting players have your way
• The art of diving during a game is not gamesmanship, just the act of a cheat performing like a stupid idiot.
• Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
• I have never yet seen a player win an argument with a referee
• Experience is a great advantage-the problem is by the time you have it you are too old to use it.
• The best gift you can give your players is a good example
• You can cover the ground a lot faster with a good pass than you can by running with the ball
• Like a violin a soccer team needs fine tuning before it can perform
• A good striker will make more opportunities than are given to him.
• Win or Loose we're on the Booze ( The Sunday team motto)
• If you keep your head when all about you are losing theirs it is possible you haven't grasped the score-line
• 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.
• Play with confidence, otherwise you will keep on losing, and losing becomes a habit.
• Even if your team's on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
• Pass the BALL not the BUCK
• In soccer it's what you learn after you know it all, that counts.
• If I had a penny every time my chairman was right i would have a penny
• Honest disagreement in a team can often be a good sign of progress
• 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
• You will always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
• When you get injured check you have two of everything down the sides and one of everything down the middle.
• A successful professional footballer is one who makes more money than his wife can spend
• Do it tomorrow you've made enough mistakes for today.
• NO PAIN - NO GAIN
• Always try and give your coach more than they expect to get
• HYPOCRISY the pretense of having standards or beliefs in the game that are contrary to ones real character or actual behavior
• Stay focussed on the moment -forget next weeks game until next week
• Football teams have wings- Good managers make them fly
• Players faults do seldom to themselves appear
• Football is about work and play- when you have the ball play when you don't work
• WINNING is not important WINNING in style is!
• Great soccer teams need landing gear as well as wings.
• The only problem with being a good sport is that sometime in your life you will need to prove it
• You only have 90 minutes to get a result, but if you work it right 90 minutes is enough.
• Referees never get everything right, but they are never wrong
• CHEATING the act of dishonesty to gain an advantage and an unjust result
• Save the Earth it's the only planet in the solar system that plays football
• Remember the Three R's in football Responsibility Risk Result
• WINNING
  always involves some risk
• Let the ball do the work it doesn't get tired
• A bad habit in this game is to become accustomed to good luck
• WINNING is not important WINNING in style is!
• Footballs are made round - to go round - pass and move.
• Inexperience is what makes a younger player do what an older player knows is impossible
• If you can't find fault in your own game then you need a second opinion
• Soccer is full of willing people, some willing to work - others willing to let them.
• Better to go back with the ball & keep possession than always go forward and lose possession
• The minute you start discussing losing ,you have lost
• The harder any football team works the luckier it gets
• If the blind lead the blind they get relegated!
• The striker was a good striker, as strikers go, and as strikers go, he went.
• Club Chairmen have the amazing talent of deciding what is best for the club then getting someone else to to do it
• Some players are so independent you cannot depend upon them.
• The player good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else
• You don't plan to fail You fail to plan
• I had bad luck with both my strikers. The first one left the second one didn't.
• Success is a journey not a destination.
• Any player who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new
• 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 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 way to make a small amount of money in football is to start with a large amount of money
• Adversity in this game causes some to break- others to break records!
• Every player should use what Mother Nature gave them before Father time takes it away
• EXPERIENCE simply the name we give to our past mistakes
• Winners don't quit - Quitters don't win
• A really successful team is one that can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others throw at them
• Football is a great sport to be involved in and has a great advantage over cricket as it doesn’t go on as long
• 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
• Smile at your opponent after he kicks you Nothing annoys him so much
• The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.
• Wealth is all well and good in the game but it is absolutely worthless without health
• In order to be a winner, you must be prepared to lose sometime.
• I do not mind living in a world that has womans football in it as long as I can be a man in it
• Educated soccer comments often fall on barren ground but praise and kind words are never thrown away
• The goalkeeper who can smile when he's just conceded a goal has thought of someone he can blame it on
• A young pair of legs may run faster but an old pair of legs more often than not runs in the right direction
• There is only one crime in soccer, to give the ball to the opposition
• You play soccer between your ears as well as between your feet
• Great players are made by a good first touch mediocre players by two
• The best way to spell lose is WIN
• The cure for boredom in the game is curiosity. Their is no cure for curiosity.
• The boss is always early when you are late & late when you are early.
• The height of embarrassment is when silly goal celebrations are performed without first checking that the officials have actually given the goal.
• A manager is only as good as the players that he signs
• Mental health in the game would improve if everyone acknowledged that referees can make you crazy
• The only way a goalkeeper can be sure of catching a cross is to miss the one before.
• Players without the ball dictate the actions of players with the ball.
• 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
• If you believe in luck you will find the harder you work the more you will have of it
• Winning is a habit, unfortunately so is losing
• After the game has finished choose silence of all virtues,for by it you hear other players and managers imperfections,and conceal your own
• In soccer failure is unavoidable & success is elusive
• It is a well known fact, that the older a player gets, the faster he could run as a boy
• We stop playing soccer because we grow old - we grow old because we stop playing soccer
• The best individuals for your club are those who are afraid to let you down but never do!
• Pain is Temporary Pride is Forever
• You can spend all your time running for the ball or you can find space and let the ball run to you.
• Great managers have the knack of making players think they are better than they think they are!
• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary teams is the little extra
• 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
• Be like a postage stamp-stick with your team until you get their
• Some players are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire an agent.
• Strive to be the best ; when you are the best strive to be better
• A good result only happens when you care enough to do your best
• You must first be predictable before you can become unpredictable.
• Remember the three P's ….Persistenly Poor Practice = Persistenly Poor Performance.
• Some players are likened to wheel barrows only useful when pushed and very easily upset.
• To be a WINNER all you need is to give all you have.
• If you don't lose a goal,you don't lose a game
• All players need to learn to take orders, if in the future they wish to manage a team and give orders.
• It's time to hang your boots up when regrets take the place of dreams.
• A real team mate is one who walks in to see you when the rest of the world walks out
• The best vitamin for a footballer is B1
• You can't change last weeks result but you can change this weeks.
• The footballer who wastes time in a game, when he is old, will realize the value of that time
• A managers stature is measured by what he does with what he has
• In soccer failure is inevitable and success is elusive
• Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, referee
• Mistakes on the pitch are the lessons from which we learn
• Some players arrive late for training, but make up for it by leaving early
• As a player the silence of an away crowd is wonderful to listen to
• Better to go back with the ball and keep possession than always go forward and lose possession
• There is only one great happinesses in life ,to score the winning goal in the eighty ninth minute
• As a Player You need Commitment-Confidence-Concentration & Composure
• No player can argue with a referee and defend at the same time.
• The eighty ninth minute is too early in the game to give up
• You can never attain real success, unless you enjoy what you are doing
• If you want the rainbow , winning the league , you need to put up with a little rain along the way
• The best rule in life is to play soccer on every day ending with a "y"
• Seven days without training makes one WEAK
• Real Knowledge in the game is to know the extent of one's ignorance
• Those who choose not to remember defeat are condemned to repeat the experience.
• Players are like tea bags, you can't tell how strong they are until you put them in hot water
• The best thing you can take before a match is a good nights sleep
• Managers treat players of forty like bank notes, they change them for two twenties
• It is always the best policy when managing a club to speak the truth,unless of course, you are an exceptionally good liar
• I'm not afraid to lose I just don't want to be around when it happens!
• The only place where winning comes before work is in the dictionary.
• Attitude it's a little thing that makes a lot of difference
• Coaching manuals are no more written for coaches than ghost stories are written for ghosts.