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To: Jack Colton who wrote (5788)	6/10/1998 11:46:00 AM
From: Henry Volquardsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 62547

The following our actual quotes associated with English football (soccer) "Two Andy Gorams, there's only two Andy Gorams" - Kilmarnock fans to the Rangers keeper after he had been diagnosed with mild schizophrenia "I've told the players we need to win so that I can have the cash to buy some new ones." - Chris Turner, Peterborough manager, before LC QF, 1992 "I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." - George Best "If we played like that every week we wouldn't be so inconsistent." - Bryan Robson, Man Utd, 1990 "That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on." - John Lambie, Partick Thistle manager, when told a concussed striker did not know who he was. "I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area > for goalies is between their legs." - Andy Gray, Sky Sport Richard Keys: "Well Roy, do you think that you'll have to finish above Manchester United to win the league?" Roy Evans: "You have to finish above everyone to win the league" Richard: " " "It's now 1-1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday." - Radio 5 Live "Football today, it's like a game of chess. It's all about money." - Newcastle United Fan, Radio 5 Live "I'm not a believer in luck but I do believe you need it." - Alan Ball "Merseyside derbies usually last 90 minutes and I'm sure today's won't be any different." - Trevor Brooking "Dumbarton player Steve McCahill has limped off with a badly cut forehead" - Tom Ferrie "And I honestly believe we can go all the way to Wembley unless somebody knocks us out." - Dave Bassett "And Arsenal now have plenty of time to dictate the last few seconds." - Peter Jones "What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal." - Jimmy Hill "Newcastle, of course, unbeaten in their last five wins." - Brian Moore "Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer." - David Ackfield "What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio." - Gerry Francis "If there weren't such a thing as football, we'd all be frustrated footballers." - Mick Lyons "He's one of those footballers whose brains are in his head." - Derek Johnstone, BBC TV Scotland, 1994 "I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel." - Stuart Pearce, 1992 Jimmy Hill: "Don't sit on the fence Terry, what chance do you think Germany has got of getting through?" Terry Venables: "I think it's fifty-fifty" "There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch" - Ron Atkinson lauds Gordon Strachan, 39 "If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim." - Berti Vogts, Germany coach "You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey." - Arrigo Sacchi, Italy coach, defending a meagre playing record "The only way we will be going to Europe is if the club splash out and take us all to Eurodisney." - Dean Holdsworth, Wimbledon "If the players want to make it hard for me, I am happy to make it twice as hard for them." - Wendy Toms, the first female referee to officiate in a professional game "I think having Wasps around here as well gives us that little buzz around the place." - Ray Wilkins on the QPR-Wasps groundshare "It took a lot of bottle for Tony to own up." - Ian Wright on the Arsenal captain's confession to alcoholism