Quotes About Jock Stein

#1. He [Jock Stein] phoned and asked me to come over and see him one night Hibs were playing at home to Aberdeen. You know Im coming as manager, he said, and I know youll be disappointed. But I want to reciprocate for you making me your deputy by asking you to become my assistant.

Sean Fallon

#2. There is always a time to move on.

Jock Stein

#3. Football without fans is nothing.

Jock Stein

#4. There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.

Jock Stein

#5. Football is for the fans. It can be the greatest game in the world but if there are no people to watch it, it becomes nothing. The fans are the lifeblood of the game.

Jock Stein

#6. If you're good enough, the referee doesn't matter.

Jock Stein

#7. I think it is important to win a match, but I think what is even more important is the manner in which you win.

Jock Stein

#8. Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love.

Jock Stein

#9. The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.

Jock Stein

#10. There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

Jock Stein

#11. Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

Amy Tan

#12. My proudest moment? Every Friday morning when I look at the board at Celtic Park and see my name on the team sheet for tomorrow's game.

Jock Stein

#13. It's not religion that's the problem - it's the lack of religion!

Jock Stein

#14. Pray faithfully.
Pray fervently.
Pray fearlessly.
Pray forthrightly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#15. Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

Stedman Graham

#16. Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in that gap, all human sadness lies.

George Rodrigue

#17. The only thing you can do to make me that angry is to lie with another man" ~ Raphael, Guild Hunter, Nalini Singh

Nalini Singh

#18. I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.

Jock Stein

#19. I see myself as the buffer between the band and the record company.

Jerry Harrison

#20. Ach, Rangers are alright, but they still haven't invented blue grass.

Jock Stein

#21. I lost some friends when I made the move, but if that's what matters to them, then they're not really friends at all.

Jock Stein

#22. If I can achieve for Celtic what I have achieved for Hibs, then I feel I will have done well for them.

Jock Stein

#23. Nitric oxide production by immune cells is one of the key mechanisms that our bodies use to destroy diseased cells. Enhancement of these types of immune responses is seen consistently with many medicinal mushrooms that have been tested by cancer researchers.

Paul Stamets

#24. You may have heard of me.

Patrick Rothfuss

#25. Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

Jock Stein

#26. Without fans who pay at the turnstile, football is nothing. Sometimes we are inclined to forget that. The only chance of bringing them into stadiums is if they are entertained by what happens on the football field.

Jock Stein

#27. Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players

Jock Stein

#28. It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends.

Jock Stein

#29. People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Frederic Raphael

#30. We must play as if there are no more games, no more tomorrows ...

Jock Stein

#31. The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.

Jock Stein

#32. One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

Marcus Samuelsson

#33. Most things in music go full circle eventually.

Simon Cowell