Adrian Chiles Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.”
-- Adrian Chiles

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“There's a certain amount of one-way shirt swapping going on.”
-- Adrian Chiles

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“I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.”
-- Adrian Chiles

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“If you're still watching, write in and we'll send you a fiver each.”
-- Adrian Chiles

Source : "Viewers cry foul over Adrian Chiles' FA Cup commentary". www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.

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“The aura of uninvincibility has gone, if there is such a word.”
-- Adrian Chiles

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“Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.”
-- Adrian Chiles

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“I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.”

“At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.”

“By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.”

“I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.59, North Point Press

“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

“The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.”

Source : "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.

“Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.”

“The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.

“Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.”

“My music lives because of real players.”

Source : "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.