Jack Charlton Quotes

#1. We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

Craig Johnston

#2. Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

Craig Johnston

#3. So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

Craig Johnston

#4. To be courted as princesses for a few weeks, in order to be treated as slaves for the rest of our lives.

Samuel Richardson

#5. Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies.

Jack Charlton

#6. Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.

Jack Charlton

#7. We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.

Jack Charlton

#8. That sport best pleases that doth least know how, where zeal strives to content, and the contents dies in the zeal of that which it presents. Their form confounded makes most form in mirth when great things laboring perish in their birth.

William Shakespeare

#9. The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

Jack Charlton

#10. Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

Paul Russell

#11. Nothing is given to you. You've got to work for it.

Jack Charlton

#12. I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.

Jack Charlton

#13. The only power that black people have is their hunger.

Ben Okri

#14. We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.

Jack Charlton

#15. If in winning we only draw we would be fine.

Jack Charlton

#16. I'm always suspicious of games where you're the only ones that play it.

Jack Charlton

#17. It's a house. Maybe if you were here with me, I'd see it more as a home.

Jaime Reese

#18. You need not comfort me by lightening my load I ask for strength to carry my burden -tagore

Anish Majumdar

#19. Every story - love or war - is a story about looking left when we should have been looking right.

Sarah Blake

#20. I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

Meister Eckhart

#21. Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.

Jack Charlton

#22. It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.

Jack Charlton