Jimmy Greaves quotes

Jimmy Greaves quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The biggest regret of my whole football career was leaving White Hart Lane in 1970.....my interest in football weakened after that. I was heartbroken”
-- Jimmy Greaves

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“Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.”
-- Jimmy Greaves

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“Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with the gold gun emblem sewn into their pockets and grey slacks. We couldnâ€™t match their ground with that beautiful main entrance, marble halls and spiral staircase. Even in 1961 when we won the Double, we were never as big a club as Arsenal.”
-- Jimmy Greaves

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“The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.”
-- Jimmy Greaves

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“Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.”
-- Jimmy Greaves

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“The only thing Norwich didn't get was the goal that they finally got”
-- Jimmy Greaves

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“We are really the victims of our own problems”
-- Jimmy Greaves

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“Portsmouth are at Huddersfield, which is always away”
-- Jimmy Greaves

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“I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do”
-- Jimmy Greaves

Source : Jimmy Greaves, Ian St John (2009). “Saint And Greavsie's Funny Old Games”, p.196, Hachette UK

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“He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post.”
-- Jimmy Greaves

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“Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.”
-- Jimmy Greaves

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