Johnny Giles quotes
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“Kilbane did what he normally does: ran his heart out and gave the ball away a lot.”
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“There's only one plan in football: win you next match.”
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“Living in Manchester was like living on the moon... wherever that might be”
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“Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team”
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“Richard Dunne comes from a great footballing family... the Dunne family”
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“Great teams always have a Plan B. Look at Barcelona. Their Plan B is to stick to Plan A”
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“The longer Jose Mourinho goes on, and on, and on, the more difficult it is for me not to despise him and the set of values he's bringing to football.”
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“The Christian Coalition of Alabama will work to ensure that reckless trial lawyers and activist judges will not be able to open the floodgates to increase taxes and that private, Christian, parochial and home-school families will be protected.”
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“Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.”
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“I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.”
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“How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break. They've Riise sitting on the bench who's a different class to this fella.”
-- Johnny GilesSource : "Gottle Of Geer and Cantankerous Corkman" by Barry Glendenning and Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2005.
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“People didnt know until I said it publicly that I had a nasty side. It was never obvious to the fans. I never lost my head, you see. Never got sent off.”
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“Sam Allardyce should learn a bit of humidity”
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“Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart,”
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“I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd”
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“The one great thing about football is that whatever happens it will manifest itself on the pitch. If it's right, you'll see it on the pitch, if it's wrong, it will be on the pitch. In business you can get fellas who are doing crooked deals and nobody knows anything about it. There is an ultimate honesty about football. Politics is part of the lying game, I wouldn't trust any of them. In football you can hide for a while, but ultimately the truth comes out. I always loved that.”
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