Football Chairman Quotes

#1. He's put her through so much ... so goddamn much. Karma's a bitch, though, and that bitch had better get to work.

Melissa Brown

#2. My main regret about my years in football was keeping my mouth shut like a little mouse, not daring to speak out because I was told you left the managers to get on with the job and that the chairman must never interfere with the manager's decisions or the performance of his team.

Alan Sugar

#3. Unless the chairman decides to sack me, I won't be quitting.

Carlton Palmer

#4. Take romance for instance. Fictional women in romance novels never get their period. They never have morning breath. They orgasm seventeen times a day. And they never seem to have jobs with bosses.

Penny Reid

#5. Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

Gregory Petsko

#6. Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.

Robert Moss

#7. I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.

John Toshack

#8. Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

Charles Fourier

#9. Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

Stanley Crouch

#10. I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

James Nicoll

#11. Still, even after the black winger John Barnes scored his solo goal to beat Brazil in Rio in 1984, the Football Association's chairman was harangued by England fans on the flight back home: "You fucking wanker, you prefer sambos to us.

Simon Kuper

#12. You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.

Cecilia Bartoli

#13. I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.

Beth Revis

#14. The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.

Khalil Gibran