Peter Shilton Quotes

#1. Peter Shilton conceded five, you don't get many of those to the dozen

Des Lynam

#2. As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.

Anne Bonny

#3. You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

Peter Shilton

#4. The main factor in a penalty shootout is luck again. You need to stay calm and focussed but the biggest thing you need is luck.

Peter Shilton

#5. I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

Peter Shilton

#6. If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.

Peter Shilton

#7. As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

Peter Shilton

#8. I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

Peter Shilton

#9. Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.

Aaron Zigman

#10. To play in the World Cup and try to win something for England was the ultimate.

Peter Shilton

#11. Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do.

Peter Shilton

#12. If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.

Mignon McLaughlin

#13. Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!

Elizabeth Chase Allen

#14. You've got to believe you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.

Peter Shilton

#15. The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

Peter Shilton

#16. Being fit will keep you mentally sharp and people forget that.

Peter Shilton

#17. I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.

Peter Shilton

#18. You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#19. There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

Peter Shilton

#20. I mean no disrespect to Scottish football, but the Premier League is the biggest stage and highest profile league of all.

Peter Shilton

#21. I'm not a big music fan. Well, I am a big fan, but I'm not the type of person who buys stuff.

Peter Shilton

#22. Tallennar. I knew what it meant. It meant thief. Well, that was all right. Because a thief really was a lot like a wizard.

Sarah Prineas

#23. When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.

Peter Shilton

#24. There have always been card schools at football clubs and always will be.

Peter Shilton

#25. I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

Peter Shilton

#26. You have too much social influence upon you. You are not going by your own nature. People do so many nonsensical life-negative things because they don't want to be left out of the scene around them.

Jaggi Vasudev

#27. I found that I could find the energy ... that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, if you just keep telling yourself, I can do it ... I can do it ... I can do it!

Jon David Erickson