Malcolm Allison quotes

“Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.”
-- Malcolm Allison

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“You're not a real manager unless you've been sacked.”
-- Malcolm Allison

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“John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.”
-- Malcolm Allison

Source : "A history of the year in 100 objects - part four", www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2010.

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“It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.”

“Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.”

“I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.”

Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

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

“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”

“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”

“Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.”

Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

“This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.”

“I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.”

“The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.”