Quotes About Graeme Souness

#1. Happiness had knocked on my door, and I opened it long enough to see that I didn't want what was being offered.

Francisco X Stork

#2. Sometimes you have to play in a position that you may not feel is your best.

Graeme Souness

#3. During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.

Dionne Warwick

#4. All I ever think about is food or sex.

Rachel Cohn

#5. The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

Thomas Mann

#6. A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.

Dambisa Moyo

#7. Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.

Graeme Souness

#8. There will be internal discipline, but I can envisage both of them playing for Newcastle again. They're top-class players and they don't come along very often.

Graeme Souness

#9. Scottish football is full of hammer throwers.

Graeme Souness

#10. Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.

John L. Lewis

#11. I won't be fining players for getting sent off.

Graeme Souness

#12. The thing that impressed everyone when he same on the scene as a 17 year old was he already spoke like a man.
(on Michael Owen)

Graeme Souness

#13. I remember being in intensive care, looking at the clock and thinking 'don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep'. I can laugh about it now but I was petrified.

Graeme Souness

#14. A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

Beverley Nichols

#15. Questions are often more effective than statements in moving others. Or to put it more appropriately, since the research shows that when the facts are on your side, questions are more persuasive than statements, don't you think you should be pitching more with questions?

Daniel H. Pink

#16. All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

Mary Caroline Richards

#17. Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

George Thorogood

#18. With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.

Graeme Souness

#19. It's over. It's never over. It isn't a line from that night to this day; it's a circle.

Rick Yancey

#20. God has given him an attitude that he can deal with anything football throws at him.
(on Michael Owen)

Graeme Souness

#21. Without picking out anyone in particular. I thought Mark Wright was tremendous.

Graeme Souness

#22. It's the price on the ticket and emphasizes the pressure every manager is under weather you are at the top or bottom of the league.

Graeme Souness

#23. Working with people on a field turns me on.

Graeme Souness

#24. Everton are a bigger club than Liverpool. Everywhere you go on Merseyside you bump into Everton supporters.

Graeme Souness

#25. The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Graeme Souness

#26. There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.

W. Kamau Bell

#27. I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.

Graeme Souness

#28. These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another ... Most good people have a sense of humor. The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are mostly humorless.

Dean Koontz

#29. Ashes. Ashes, and blood, and nothing more.

Brent Weeks

#30. I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

Jeff Bridges

#31. Lionel Messi is the Best Player Ever.

Graeme Souness

#32. If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

Graeme Souness

#33. Players who have more great games than other players are the great players.

Graeme Souness