Tommy Docherty Quotes

#1. Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Joseph Joubert

#2. Players taught to watch the man with the ball leaves them totally unprepared for the next move, which is always dictated by a player without the ball.

Tommy Docherty

#3. Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap.

Tommy Docherty

#4. If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung.

Tommy Docherty

#5. Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

Dejan Stojanovic

#6. Who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of his loneliness?

Nicole Krauss

#7. Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Thomas J. Watson

#8. When one door closes, another slams shut in your face.

Tommy Docherty

#9. You can keep all your Bests, Peles and Maradonas, Duncan Edwards was the greatest of them all.

Tommy Docherty

#10. Cricket is the only game that you can actually put on weight when playing.

Tommy Docherty

#11. Foster's face breaks into a grin.

Stephen King

#12. All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

Ron Atkinson

#13. Commit all your crimes when Sachin is batting. They will go unnoticed because even the Lord is watching.

Sachin Tendulkar

#14. The hardest thing about writing a novel is getting it published.

Marianne Cushing

#15. He wanted to go. He hurt so much. He wanted it all to end, to go away. Everything. He just wanted it to stop.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. It is easier to trick with charm than with aggression.

Nick Lake

#17. There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.

Tommy Docherty

#18. I've always said there's a place for the press but they haven't dug it yet.

Tommy Docherty

#19. I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me
whether what I have thought has already been
thought before me by another.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#20. The only way to live is to forget that you're going to die. Death is unimportant. The fear of it should never influence a single action of the wise man.

W. Somerset Maugham

#21. I don't have a problem with nudity. I never have. I was born naked. I'd like to buried naked. It's a way of life in Australia.

Elle Macpherson

#22. High school doesn't end after high school.

Maggie Young

#23. Mysteries are the evidence to errors in our religious and historical precepts.

Matthew A. Petti

#24. I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

Katherine Heigl