some are classics like GTs "You don't get cramp at this club" some are witty like Spike Milligan's epitaph: "I told you I was ill." some are thought provoking. Do you have a favourite quote or one that some you up? Mine is from the great philosopher Mr. Daniel Glover - "I'm too old for this *hit"
Someone once quoted me £50 to clear our front garden of weeds, cut the hedges, jet wash the paths and re-sand the drive. That was quite favourable
A couple of goodies from Winston Churchill :- On being accused of being "disgustingly drunk", he replied 'My dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly." Nancy Astor said to him "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!” He answered, “And if I were your husband I would drink it.”
As quoted by Robert De Niro in "The Intern", Mark Twain's line of :- "You're never wrong to do the right thing" is a good one too.
Didn't Aidy Boothroyd once say, in response to a question about his inexperience in management, "if you don't know what you're doing wear a suit". I liked that.
Gordon Strachan was once asked by a reporter - "Gordon, can I have a quick word?". "Velocity" replied Strachan, and he walked away.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing - Socrates If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way - Napoleon Hill Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools because they have to say something - Plato Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better - Samuel Beckett If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door - M Berle
"I don't think I heard that!" "I don't think I said it" "I don't think - therefore I AM" - Rick Mayall and Peter Richardson, A Fistful of Travellers Cheques "Which football team do support?" "Watford" "Watford can't play to save their lives amigo" "I agree" "Well I don't agree. They just need a new manager. Anyway, you're going to die." -Rick Mayall and Peter Richardson, A Fistful of Travellers Cheques
"We have a love-hate relationship.. and i know for a fact he loves me" Graham Taylor on ex Villa chairman Doug Ellis.
Can't remember which manager said it: "The fans were suffering from illness and fatigue...they were sick and tired of me"
Iain Cuthbertson to Adam Faith in the (old) tv series "Budgie" :- "There are 2 things in this world that I don't like Budgie, and you're both of them"
"When you are 4-0 up you should never lose 7-1" - Lawrie McMenemy "In terms of the Richter scale this defeat was a force 8 gale.” - John Lyall "I’d been ill and hadn’t trained for a week and I’d been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn’t sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I’m not one to make excuses." - Clinton Morrison "That can't be roight??" - Gollum
Good job he wasnt playing under GT! and i know i don't need to quote his thoughts about that. Here's are some more GT quotes while at the club.. “I asked Elton what was his ambition for the club? I thought he would say promotion, perhaps Second (tier) Division football. He replied that he wanted the club to get into Europe. I thought: ‘You will do for me pal.’” (1977) “Do you want to get to the top? because that is where I am heading. So who among you are coming with me?” - to the players on first meeting them. (1977) “I am not here just to build a team but to build a club. There is no way I can get promotion to Division Three unless I get a Division Three club behind me.” (1977 in Division Four) “I think many people in the game and outside thought I was a young upstart taking the money from an indulgent pop star. Signing Bertie Mee as assistant-manager brings credibility to the entire enterprise.” (1977) “I am already in Division Two. I will drag them over the line if necessary” – when the Hornets faltered in the Division Three promotion run-in. (1979) “My ambition is to plant Watford in the top flight, not just gain promotion to Division One.” (1980) “If that is not the greatest ever cup result, I am bloody annoyed.” – after Watford overturned a 4-0 deficit to beat Southampton 7-1. (1980) “I like that comment you wrote about achieving the Impossible Dream. That sums it up. I will be using that if you don’t mind” – after Oliver Phillips had written the phrase stating the majority of fans thought top-flight status was beyond the Hornets, judging by a number of letters we received, critical of the club. (1981) “It’s time we were moving on” - at the outset of the 1981-82 season. “We will have a dug out for the managers and coaches when the Vicarage Road end is covered. When the supporters are shielded from the rain, we shall be too.” (1981) “If people think I spend my time on the training field teaching my players to kick a ball 50 yards down the middle, then it is an insult to my intelligence and I wonder at theirs.” – when Taylor and Watford were criticised for their tactics. (1982) “With seven senior players out, I have had to throw kids in because, in reality, there is no choice. So that is the greatest result of my career.” – after overcoming a 3-0 first-leg deficit to beat Kaiserslautern 3-0 in the UEFA Cup first round at Vicarage Road (1983) “That moment at Villa Park, as we went towards the cheering Watford fans, knowing we were in the Cup Final, was the moment I knew. I felt it. I had totally bonded with the locality.” (1984) “We have been mentioned in parliament and Watford has been cited as the type of football club that induces the right behaviour among supporters. We have a hooligan-free club, a family enclosure and terrace yet despite all this, not once has anyone in an official capacity come to Watford to find out what we have done and why.” – when reports on stadiums and hooliganism were being compiled. (1985) “They like us. They think we have some good ideas and they think well of us. We were included in the talks about a super league when a lot of others were not included or invited. There is a divide coming at the top of football and we have to make sure we are above that divide.” – when talks which ultimately led to the Premier League were started. (1986) “You have to live for today. Today is the best day. When I came back out on the pitch and saw 39,000 still filling half of Wembley in all those colours and knowing they appeared to be in heaven and you had played a part in bringing it about, the feeling was indescribable.” – after winning the Play-Off Final and promotion to the Premiership. (1999) “I am all for fans having memories of Holton and Furphy etc. I would like to think they will look back on my time here and think ‘he didn’t do a bad job’. And I want people to be able to say: ‘That’s when Graham Taylor was here’.” (1977) Long post but that was just some. More can be found here.. http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/sp...or__The_Vicarage_Road_years_in_his_own_words/
'I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.' — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (Sorry if that should have been in the politics section.)
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted" - Aesop "But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated" - earnest heamingway "T'is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" - Alfred Lord Tennyson
