Dunphy Quotes

#1. What I do requires fantastic concentration ... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.

Truman Capote

#2. I never wanted fame.

Jack Dunphy

#3. You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

Eamon Dunphy

#4. That's the first time I've seen sex between two men on the BBC.

Eamon Dunphy

#5. Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.

Eamon Dunphy

#6. Ability and guts is an unbeatable combination.

Eamon Dunphy

#7. If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.

Jack Dunphy

#8. Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.

Eamon Dunphy

#9. Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.

Eamon Dunphy

#10. Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball.

Marv Dunphy

#11. Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.

Eamon Dunphy

#12. If we control the ball, they pay.

Marv Dunphy

#13. They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on

Eamon Dunphy

#14. It is not how tall you are, it is how GOOD you are.

Marv Dunphy

#15. He's one of the biggest whingers in world football ... he's a bloody eejit.

Eamon Dunphy

#16. Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.

Eamon Dunphy

#17. Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.

Eamon Dunphy

#18. Usually it takes a bottle of Bacardi and a gallon of Coke to get John out of his seat.

Eamon Dunphy

#19. What doesn't kill you doesn't make you stronger. It just fucks you up something rotten.

Shane Dunphy

#20. We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer.

Eamon Dunphy

#21. He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

Eamon Dunphy

#22. No one wants to be in the dark forever; just happens that most of us aren't strong enough to find the light switch.

Jalena Dunphy

#23. I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.

Eamon Dunphy

#24. I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby.

Eamon Dunphy

#25. Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

Jack Dunphy

#26. Michel Platini has no bottle. He is not a great player.

Eamon Dunphy

#27. Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. -

Marv Dunphy

#28. Found out. A nothing player.

Eamon Dunphy

#29. Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer ...

Eamon Dunphy

#30. In a darkening world where the shadows of violence, political expediency, materialism and junk culture grow ever longer, sport as it is practised by its good pros remains a bastion of decency, a place where virtue is rewarded and cheating exposed.

Eamon Dunphy

#31. He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

George Plimpton

#32. That is NOT the arse of a £7million player!

Eamon Dunphy

#33. If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.

Eamon Dunphy