Docherty Quotes

#1. All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

Ron Atkinson

#2. There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Max Beerbohm

#3. I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.

Jonathan Demme

#4. Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.

Tommy Docherty

#5. Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap.

Tommy Docherty

#6. If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

Tommy Docherty

#7. When one door closes, another slams shut in your face.

Tommy Docherty

#8. No one can be your sun, moon, or stars until you have your own world.

K.M.Docherty

#9. You can keep all your Bests, Peles and Maradonas, Duncan Edwards was the greatest of them all.

Tommy Docherty

#10. Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.

Tommy Docherty

#11. When you make things too easy on someone, you're giving them a discount on your worth; and this causes them to regard you as inferior.

K.M.Docherty

#12. If you go to ice and you think, 'I must score' or 'I must get some points,' you won't score or get any points. You must go and play and don't think about it.

Alexander Ovechkin

#13. There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.

Tommy Docherty

#14. I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.

Tommy Docherty

#15. I've finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come.

Anna Quindlen

#16. It's bizarre to have both a super-connected and disconnected world. Like, you can use Twitter in the most narcissistic way. Do people really need to know that I'm drinking a latte right now? It's so indulgent.

Pete Wentz