Top 32 John Motson Quotes
#1. Is John Motson still wearing his shepherdskin coat?
Bobby Gould
#2. Thirteen years after Basic Instinct, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is now in London, and is going out with a footballer played by Stan Collymore, of all people. On the rebound from John Motson, perhaps. It is difficult to convey just how uproariously awful this movie is, all of the time.
Peter Bradshaw
#3. And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.
John Motson
#4. And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway.
John Motson
#5. The goals made such a difference to the way this game went.
John Motson
#6. Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.
John Motson
#7. They sounded like intestines, only on the outside, and the men in the Bible were always having them cut off and not being able to go to church. Horrid.
Jeanette Winterson
#8. Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves.
John Motson
#9. I think a lot of times dreams are nothing more than a kind of mental or spiritual flatulence. They're a way of relieving pressure.
Stephen King
#10. Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.
John Motson
#11. I think this could be our best victory over Germany since the war.
John Motson
#12. There is still nothing on the proverbial scoreboard.
John Motson
#13. The match has become quite unpredictable, but it still looks as though Arsenal will win the cup.
John Motson
#14. Owen scores and breaks Lineker's competitive scoring record. Although this being a friendly it doesn't actual count, so he hasn't quite done it yet.
John Motson
#15. The Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.
John Motson
#16. The game is balanced in Arsenal's favour.
John Motson
#17. It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.
John Motson
#18. Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.
John Motson
#19. In a sense it's a one-man show ... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.
John Motson
#20. Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings
John Motson
#21. For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.
John Motson
#22. No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge.
Thomas Jefferson
#23. Its Arsenal 0 - Everton 1, and the longer it stays like that the more you've got to fancy Everton.
John Motson
#24. Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here.
John Motson
#25. Gary Lineker has now scored 37 goals. That is precisely twice as many as last year.
John Motson
#26. The unexpected is always likely to happen.
John Motson
#27. The World Cup is a truly International event.
John Motson
#28. I've never really had a fear of heights; in fact, I love being up high, so hanging from wires high above everyone's head has always sort of felt natural for me.
Ciara Renee
#29. Northern Ireland were in white, which was quite appropriate because three inches of snow had to be cleared from the pitch before kick off
John Motson
#30. That shot might not have been as good as it might have been.
John Motson
#31. That is what we have been feinting towards for a year of our lives: pretending like it was going to happen, acting like it was going to happen, and making you think it was going to happen. I like to work from the back forward.
David Mandel
#32. Defoe was level and anyone who says otherwise is picking hairs
John Motson
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