Blackpool Quotes:

I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.

- Ian Holloway

source: "Cardiff City V Blackpool: the Wit and Wisdom of Ian Holloway". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 21, 2010.

topic: Football, Dark, League, Blackpool

The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him....Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better!

- Cristiano Ronaldo

topic: Soccer, Kids, Feel Better, Hamsters, Cristiano Ronaldo

It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake.

- Ian Holloway

source: "Manchester United's Sir Alex Ferguson v Blackpool's Ian Holloway: Who is the king of quotes?". www.goal.com. January 25, 2011.

topic: Football, League, Lucky, Premier League, Blackpool

The council in Blackpool have given the homeless bus passes, but how would they know where to get off?

- Frank Carson

topic: Funny, Humor, Homeless, Blackpool

It's an exciting place to go, really. The rain, the drizzle, the cold, the depressing people, the smokes in the bath ... I don't know of anyone who has been to Blackpool and enjoyed it.

- Ian Hindmarsh

topic: Depressing, Rain, People, Drizzle, Rugby League

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

- Robert Smith

topic: Beach, Memories, Children, Blackpool, Sitting On The Beach

I like a Blackpool breakfast, me - 20 ciggies and a pot of tea.

- Paul O'Grady

topic: Food, Cooking, Tea, Blackpool

Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch.

- Charlie Adam

topic: Successful, People, Mets, Blackpool

Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.

- John Mahoney

topic: Mother, Years, Firsts, Manchester, Blackpool

I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

- Johnny Vegas

topic: Illumination, House, Obsessed, Decoration, Decorating

Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and crass. I'll keep you grounded, like volcanic ash. I'll take you down, rung by rung. I'm just like British Parliment; I'm completely hung. Straight-up gangsta trippin'. Yes, boy!

- William Regal

topic: Boys, Gangsta, Wwe, Crass, Regal

Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Cheer, Live Life, Fall, Blackpool

I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.

- Ian Holloway

topic: Football, League, Needs, Blackpool

I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

- Charlie Adam

source: "Blackpool's Charlie Adam goes with the flow but keen to make a splash". Interview with Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2010.

topic: Holiday, People, Scottish, Blackpool