Bobby Robson Quotes

#1. Ray Wilkins' day will come one night

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#2. We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

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#3. Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

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#4. We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

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#5. There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.

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#6. If you don't score you are not going to win a match.

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#7. We haven't scored which means you haven't got a chance of winning.

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#8. Practice makes permanent.

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#9. There is only one word to describe football and that is 'if only'.

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#10. The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

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#11. It would have been nice if both players had maybe shaken hands with each other

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#12. Home advantage gives you an advantage.

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#13. We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.

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#14. I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball.
I think long and short balls is what football is all about

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#15. Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result.

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#16. He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

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#17. The first ninety minutes are the most important.

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#18. I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.

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#19. We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game

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#20. The margin is very marginal.

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#21. If you count your chickens before theyve hatched, they wont lay an egg.

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#22. Football's like a big market place and people go to the market every day to buy their vegetables.

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#23. Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90
minutes

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#24. He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself.
(on Craig Bellamy)

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#25. Titus looks like Tyson when he strips off in the dressing-room, except he doesn't bite and has a great tackle.

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#26. Don't count your eggs until the chicken's laid them.

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#27. Well we got nine and you can't score more than that

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#28. If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay
any eggs in the basket

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#29. The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

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#30. Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

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#31. When Gazza was dribbling he used to go through a minefield with his arm, a bit like you go through a supermarket.

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#32. Don't ask me what a typical Brazilian is because I don't know what a typical Brazilian is. But Romario was a typical Brazilian.

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