Premiership Quotes

#1. The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

Daniel Finkelstein

#2. Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

Pete Gill

#3. Arguably, Blackburn have got the best forward line in the Premiership. There's no denying that.

Mark Lawrenson

#4. I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

Roman Abramovich

#5. Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.

Jose Mourinho

#6. I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

Ron Atkinson

#7. We have to remember Damien Duff is one of the most good players in the Premiership

Frank Stapleton

#8. The bottom line is that I wanted to come back and play in the Premier League again and wake up on Saturday morning and really fancy getting out there and playing in front of this fantastic support, scoring goals and enjoying football.
(on returning to the premiership)

Michael Owen

#9. This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.

Daniel Taylor

#10. On Saturday morning, one of the two teams still unbeaten in the Premiership occupied a modest seventh place. It is an illustration of the relentless pace being set at the top of the league in which every stumble is a serious fall and draws usually constitute two dropped points.

Pete Gill

#11. My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.

Roman Abramovich

#12. The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.

Richard Gough

#13. So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.

Jose Mourinho

#14. Both Chelsea and Manchester United will be challenging for the Premiership title next season.

Roy Evans

#15. I have always maintained a high level of fitness, and that is why I am still able to handle the demands of playing in the Premiership. People have always commented on my fitness, and it's something I pride myself on.

Richard Gough

#16. I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclination, when I said, 'I'm going to scratch all that and become an actor,' I may as well have said I was going to be a Premiership footballer for the chance I'd have.

Rob James-Collier

#17. Without any doubt the best player in the Premiership has to be Scholes. He knows how to do everything, and he is one who directs the way his team plays. On top of that, he has indestructible mental strength and he is a genuine competitor.

Thierry Henry

#18. I was a bit worried coming back to the Premiership from America, but I have been pleased with my form, and the interest I have received has been good for my ego. I have no worries about my fitness, and I am really looking forward to the season starting now.

Richard Gough

#19. Three years without a Premiership title? I don't think I would still be in a job.

Jose Mourinho

#20. Sad to hear of Paul Scholes retirement! One of the best midfielders to grace the Premiership! Idolised him for years! Legend.

Jordan Henderson

#21. The time I've spent in professional Premiership club rugby has been invaluable.

Rob Andrew

#22. Bolton are an established team in the Premiership these days and well respected by the other sides.

Mark Lawrenson

#23. I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.

Bryan Robson

#24. It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.

Kevin Keegan

#25. He's a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It's a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i'd take Thierry Henry

Steve Bruce

#26. The Spanish league is fantastic, but it has not the great passion the English Premiership has got.

Michael Owen

#27. For years Paul Scholes has been one of the best players in the Premiership. He's incredible. He has always been under-rated throughout his career. He's a team player, a one and two-touch footballer who makes good decisions on the pitch and makes his team play.

Thierry Henry

#28. Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years

Frank Lampard

#29. I've given these guys the blueprint on how to win a premiership, now I just have to be patient until they're ready.

LeBron James

#30. In order to restore security for Israeli citizens, every home, mother and child in Israel, and to establish a stable and strong government that will unite the nation ... I hereby declare my candidacy for the Likud party leadership and premiership of Israel.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#31. At the start of the season you're strong enough to win the Premiership and the European Cup, but you have to be as strong in March, when the fish are down.

Gianluca Vialli

#32. When he's on fire, he is impossible to stop. He dribbles like a winger, but is still able to score 20 goals a year in the Premiership.
(on Thierry Henry)

Fabio Capello