Top 100 Robson Quotes
#1. Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.
Kevin Keegan
#2. There isn't an injury known to man that Bryan Robson hasn't had.
Alan Parry
#3. The greatest compliment I can pay Paul Scholes is that he reminds me of Bryan Robson, the way he bombs into the box.
Ray Wilkins
#4. On Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Sylvia's Lovers'.
'Philip Hepuburn worships Sylvia Robson, and finds dishonour' Sylvia Robson worships Charley Kinraid, and finds disillusionment. Charley Kinraid worships himself, and finds a career in the Royal Navy and an heiress who agrees with him.
Lucinda Elliot
#5. Stephanie Robson, baby blue, my best friend and the woman with my heart. Will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" I take a moment to compose myself. "Will you marry me?
Karina Halle
#6. I beg your pardon? Robson says.
One thing Waterhouse likes about these Brits is that when they don't know what the hell you're talking about, they are at least open to the possibility that it might be their fault.
Neal Stephenson
#7. I remember how inspiring it was to meet players like Bobby Charlton or Bryan Robson when I was a kid. I still remember Clive Allen showing up when I received a trophy for my Sunday league team.
David Beckham
#8. A mate owned a Bryan Robson top. We were kicking about, and I asked if I could be Robbo for a while. My dad looked out and went ballistic. He wasn't having his kid dragging the Gerrard name through the gutter. I thought we'd have to move!
Steven Gerrard
#9. I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace.
Ashley Jensen
#10. After a long analysis of Robson's suicide, we concluded that it could only be considered philosophical in an arithmetical sense of the term: he, being about to cause an increase of one in the human population, had decided it was his ethical duty to keep the planet's numbers constant.
Julian Barnes
#11. Phil Robson is a disturbingly good jazz guitar player!
Dave Liebman
#12. What do I think of the reverse sweep? It's like Manchester United getting a penalty and Bryan Robson taking it with his head
David Lloyd
#13. My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.
Phil Daniels
#14. Glenn Hoddle hasn't been the Hoddle we know. Neither has Bryan Robson
Ron Greenwood
#15. Bryan Robson, well, he does what he does and his future is in the future
Ron Greenwood
#16. I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
Ryan Giggs
#17. One lone tear streaked over the rose of her cheek and dropped to her collar, staining the cotton dark. Helen
Kelly Robson
#19. She tried to complain, but couldn't hide that siren grin that made males trip over their erections.
Cecy Robson
#20. We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.
Bobby Robson
#21. In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.
Bryan Robson
#22. Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.
Bobby Robson
#23. We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?
Bobby Robson
#24. I could. I don't think Dan can. He's trying to bang some biochemist working in the research lab next to his. For his sake, I hope she's as hot as he claims. His last lay could scare Christ off the cross.
Cecy Robson
#26. There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.
Bobby Robson
#27. If you don't score you are not going to win a match.
Bobby Robson
#28. Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
Bryan Robson
#29. Max smiled, the smile of comfort, the one you give to someone who's made a big mistake and is suffering the consequences, the one that doesn't help but shows you understand.
Justina Robson
#30. We haven't scored which means you haven't got a chance of winning.
Bobby Robson
#31. I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it ... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
S. Robson Walton
#33. The first time I saw Giggsy, he was playing for Salford Boys against United's apprentices. He was thin and wiry but he just glided past four of our apprentices as if they weren't even there, then he put the ball in the back of the net. I just thought 'This kid's an absolute natural'
Bryan Robson
#34. Paolo di Canio is capable of scoring the goal he scored.
Bryan Robson
#35. All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.
Bryan Robson
#36. You do not have my consent to pass on. Now take my blood!" Misha ordered. More
Cecy Robson
#37. 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
#38. It looks hard," said Michael. "Not squishy like poop.
Gary D. Robson
#39. first with the corporate state and then with autarky meant
Mark Robson
#40. They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.
Bryan Robson
#41. There's a difference between dreaming and doing. The dreamers just sit around and moon about how wonderful it would be if only things were different. The years roll on and by and by they grow old and they forget everything, even about their dreams.
May Robson
#42. For every dream of yours that you make come true, you'll pay the price in heartbreak.
May Robson
#43. There is only one word to describe football and that is 'if only'.
Bobby Robson
#44. Shayna wasn't so lucky. She waved as she passed her. "Looking good, Mrs. Mancuso."
No. She wasn't. Mrs. Mancuso's neck skin dragged a path between the tulips. "Go to church and get some morals, hussy!
Cecy Robson
#45. This little book aims to introduce the Thai language. It is intended for those who know nothing about it, but are keen to learn. We use the method of selecting 100 key words, and using these to make up sentences and present a range of expressions, so that you can "say 1000 things.
Stuart O. Robson
#46. The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.
Bobby Robson
#47. Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.
Bryan Robson
#48. It would have been nice if both players had maybe shaken hands with each other
Bobby Robson
#50. Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did.
Bryan Robson
#51. Profanity enjoyed sexual congress with profanity in this hail storm of the vile, the tautological and the physically ridiculous.
Tim Robson
#52. And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done
Bryan Robson
#53. I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.
S. Robson Walton
#54. Everyone in this world who has ever dreamed about better things has been laughed at.
May Robson
#55. A small smirk found its way to my lips. Luke Skywalker could suck it. He had nothing on Shayna.
Cecy Robson
#56. Misha didn't appear taken by her charm. He eyed her as if she's asked him to make her a garlic pizza in the shape of a cross. I laughed: I couldn't help it. Leave it to Shayna to try to befriend the guy who'll probably suck us dry by sundown.
Cecy Robson
#57. sylvan bliss, now slipping so gently by her window, with the
Jennifer Robson
#58. It wasn't going to be our day on the night.
Bryan Robson
#59. I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.
Bryan Robson
#60. If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.
Bryan Robson
#61. We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.
Bobby Robson
#62. If these bugs made their way into my brain, they'd devour me from the inside out and use my soul to raise more dead. Shit. Where was a can of Raid when a werewolf needed one? The
Cecy Robson
#63. When you beat Arsenal, they are a good three points.
Bryan Robson
#64. I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball.
I think long and short balls is what football is all about
Bobby Robson
#65. You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.
Bryan Robson
#66. A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
#67. Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result.
Bobby Robson
#68. Its build quality is superb, given that I am a novice to it 6 months ago and being heavy handed it stands up very well. I have trouble thinking of something I enjoy more than setting off and popping the kite and screaming downwind!
Steve Robson
#69. The brink of insanity wasn't for wussies.
Cecy Robson
#70. If she tried, she could recall almost all their faces, if not their names, the hundreds of men she had nursed and soothed and even, before she had lost the habit entirely, prayed for on her knees before bed each night.
Jennifer Robson
#71. He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.
Bobby Robson
#72. Ask God's blessings on your work but don't ask Him to do it for you.
Flora Robson
#73. As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and that is where our focus lies.
Bryan Robson
#74. Would it make you feel better if I pretended not to be making it up as I go along? ...In that case, I know exactly what I'm doing, but please don't ask me about it in any great detail.
Eddie Robson
#75. I don't sleep anymore. And I haven't known happiness since the day I left your arms. I don't expect your forgiveness nor do I deserve it for what I've done to you and to us. Just know that I hurt along with you, that I suffer without you, and that I'll love you forever.
Cecy Robson
#76. In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.
Bryan Robson
#77. The first ninety minutes are the most important.
Bobby Robson
#78. We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
#79. Because there's nothing you can do about other people's reactions. You be yourself and let them be themselves and if you don't get what you want then tough and if you do then good for you and that's it. Everything else is manipulation and I spit on it.
-Zal
Justina Robson
#80. The putrid carnal waste dump my skin and hair had become. An irate woman beating me with her placenta would have been more welcome than the copious amount of ... snot gluing my fingers together.
Cecy Robson
#81. I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.
Bryan Robson
#82. I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.
Eleanor Robson Belmont
#83. I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.
Bobby Robson
#84. We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game
Bobby Robson
#85. Smiled so sweetly at Liam, I feared the poor sap might need insulin.
Cecy Robson
#86. We're going to start the game at nil-nil and go out and try to get some goals.
Bryan Robson
#88. If you count your chickens before theyve hatched, they wont lay an egg.
Bobby Robson
#89. If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.
Bryan Robson
#90. Football's like a big market place and people go to the market every day to buy their vegetables.
Bobby Robson
#91. To speak of Jesus as the Messiah or Son of Man of the End-time would have made no sense at all; and, as we have already seen (ch.10), the resurrection of the body was a wholly alien idea.
Alan Robson
#92. Now men will go content with what we spoiled, Or, discontent, boil blood, and be spilled. They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress. None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress.
Jennifer Robson
#93. We've got to be outstanding when we start and let other people chase against us.
Bryan Robson
#94. Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90
minutes
Bobby Robson
#95. A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.
Bryan Robson
#96. He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself.
(on Craig Bellamy)
Bobby Robson
#97. Mind your own business, you goddamn raisin with legs! Taran screamed from inside the house.
Cecy Robson
#98. Persian insect powder, mixed into a paste with petroleum jelly, had killed the lice in her hair, but then she'd inspected her clothes and found them infested with body lice, likely picked up from one of the walking wounded who
Jennifer Robson
#99. Michael Jackson changed the world and, more personally, my life forever,
Wade Robson
#100. Bren pulled me close and chuckled in my ear. "Damn, kid. Are you in trouble." That was bad enough. His next comment was worse. "Don't worry, Aric. Celia and I don't have sex as much as we used to.
Cecy Robson
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