Quotes About Wigan

#1. I loved Martin Offiah, Andy Farrell and Shaun Edwards in that Wigan team, and they are still heroes today. They were outstanding players and great to watch.

Kevin Whately

#2. It is a Lancashire custom to be on the defensive. We anticipate jokes about rain, "bi gum," and Wigan; we expect people to peer at us through the thin layer of smoke they fancy they see around our heads.

Sylvia Lovat Corbridge

#3. And Wigan Athletic are certain to be promoted barring a mathmatical tragedy

Tony Gubba

#4. It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what your own beliefs really are. - GEORGE ORWELL, The Road to Wigan Pier

Gretchen Rubin

#5. Anyone who's seen the Wigan [League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter ... No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot.

Colin Welland

#6. When I came down south, I went to one of the early Wigan Challenge Cup victories at Wembley, and I was totally hooked from then.

Kevin Whately

#7. Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done
a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce ...

Alvin Martin

#8. I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.

Willard Wigan

#9. Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.

Willard Wigan

#10. As a kid, I lived in a fantasy world. I used to believe ants could talk. Not once did they say thank you.

Willard Wigan

#11. At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

Willard Wigan

#12. We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.

Willard Wigan

#13. When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

Willard Wigan

#14. I started making houses for ants because I thought they needed somewhere to live. Then I made them shoes and hats. It was a fantasy world I escaped to where my dyslexia didn't hold me back and my teachers couldn't criticize me. That's how my career as a micro-sculptor began.

Willard Wigan

#15. I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.

Willard Wigan

#16. The microscopic world became my obsession.

Willard Wigan

#17. All creatures are great and small.

Willard Wigan

#18. I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.

Willard Wigan

#19. My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.

Willard Wigan

#20. My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

Willard Wigan

#21. People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.

Willard Wigan

#22. There is a child in all of us.

Willard Wigan

#23. I'm like a mad professor, but without the spiky hair.

Willard Wigan

#24. When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.

Willard Wigan

#25. I'm just honoring my mother's words. She always told me, 'The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.'

Willard Wigan

#26. Those that don't believe how small my work is should just come along and see it for themselves.

Willard Wigan

#27. I work between my heartbeat. I have one-and-a-half seconds to actually move. And at the same time I have to watch I don't inhale my own work.

Willard Wigan

#28. I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.

Willard Wigan

#29. People find it very, very difficult to believe what I've done. Scientists have seen my work and they can't explain it. Even nano-scientists have seen it and been totally shocked. But if any man on Earth wants to challenge me, I'm ready. Bring it on.

Willard Wigan

#30. There are times when I've inhaled my work. There are artworks still inside of me.

Willard Wigan

#31. When you work at a microscopic level, you have to control every part of your body movement - your fingertips, your joints, the pulse in your fingers.

Willard Wigan

#32. At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

Willard Wigan