Toshack Quotes

#1. If he [Toshack] thinks there is lots of young Welsh talent coming through, then good luck to him.

Robbie Savage

#2. Oliver ... '
'What?'
'I do like you.'
'But?'
'I just don't want you to think that I'm ... that is, I'm really not looking for ... '
'Hey.' I could hear the faint smile in his voice. 'It's a book, not an etching.

Susanna Kearsley

#3. Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.

Marc Andreessen

#4. I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.

Ingrid Betancourt

#5. Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome.

Monte Irvin

#6. Winning all the time is not necessarily good.

John Toshack

#7. I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

Nate Ruess

#8. How careless of me!" By which she meant that she had deduced that he had found [them] in his pocket and pitied him for needing to be forever in the right.

Tom Holt

#9. Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait,

John Toshack

#10. I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.

John Toshack

#11. If you want success the you must become aware of the cause of success.

Christopher Dines

#12. knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete. And

Paul Kalanithi

#13. When we have four or five players out it's very difficult to get any continuity at this stage in our development. If I pull the blanket over my head my feet get cold, and if I push it over my feet my head gets cold.

John Toshack

#14. I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

James Boswell

#15. I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience,

John Toshack

#16. We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it,

John Toshack

#17. What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country,

John Toshack

#18. Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

Tony Benn

#19. It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

John Toshack