The Only Perfection There Is, Is The Perfection Of Helping Others

Winning isn’t everything.
There should be no conceit in victory and no despair in defeat.
( Sir Matt Busby )

Please do not call me arrogant, because what I say is true.
I’m European champion, I’m not one out of the bottle, I think I’m a special one.
( Jose Mourinho on taking over at Chelsea in 2004 )

He’s one of the best headerers of the ball in the game.
( Ian Wright )

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out.
It’s the pebble in your shoe.
( Muhammad Ali )

Tottenham have lost all their European quarter finals since they last won one.
( Clive Tyldesley )

Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages.
After which the players take to the field, belching and farting.
English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that’s why I have always preferred it to Italy.
( Paolo Di Canio )

I want to build a team that’s invincible.
So that they have to send a team from bloody Mars to beat us.
( Bill Shankly )

Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watches.
( Alan Green )

I think the next United manager is already at the club.
It could be either Ryan Giggs or Ole Solskjaer, who isn’t at the club.
( Mickey Gray )

Never change a winning team.
( Sir Alf Ramsey )

People want success.
It’s like coffee, they want instant.
( Sir Bobby Robson )

His brother-in-law is Scott Parker, so he’s got a good pedigree.
( David Pleat )

Manchester City are going to go and win the Premier League this year, as long as they can get their complacency right.
( Paul Merson )

Players lose you games, not tactics.
There’s so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
( Brian Clough )

If you don’t believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day.
( Neville Southall )

It’s best being a striker.
If you miss five then score the winner, you’re a hero.
The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in, and he’s a villain.
( Ian Rush )

It was a no-needful tackle from Danny Fox.
( Phil Neville )

I know what it’s like to win things.
You need a certain type of player with a determination to win.
You see it in the eyes.
( Ruud Gullit )

Athletics supremo Lord Coe saying the appalling doping scandal is not keeping him awake at night.
Should we check the drugs that are getting him to sleep?
( Brian Reade, 14.11.2015 )

I won’t say we have to win.
I won’t put that pressure.
But we can’t lose.
( Jose Mourinho )

If that penalty had missed, it would have taken the keeper in the net with it.
( Jamie Redknapp )

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.
( Dennis Bergkamp )

Football’s not just about scoring goals, it’s about winning.
( Alan Shearer )

When results aren’t good the manager gets the sack, that’s the game.
( Roy Keane )

Aston Villa have literally metaphorically had their pants pulled down.
( Dion Dublin )

Sorry to hear that FIFA’s suspended president Sepp Blatter is in hospital after suffering “a small breakdown”.
I wish him a speedy recovery.
So law enforcers can ask him for a “lengthy breakdown” of his financial arrangements these past 17 years.
( Brian Reade, 14.11.2015 )

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.
( Luis Figo )

People say it is part of the game.
You win some, you lose some.
But not for me.
( Ruud van Nistelrooy )

I saw a defeat coming when they went 3-0 down.
( David Pleat )

It doesn’t matter who scores the goals so long as we win.
( Steven Gerrard )

Any side in the world would miss Bareth Gale.
( David Pleat )

If QPR go into the Championship, the players will be like rats jumping over a ship.
( Mick Quinn )

A lot of football success is in the mind.
You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
( Bill Shankly )

That was totally against the runaway.
( Iain Dowie )

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
( Gary Neville )

Berahino hasn’t been the best player on the pitch but he’s my man of the match.
( Owen Hargreaves )

In football you always get judged on your last game.
Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it’s the last game that everyone has seen.
( Thierry Henry )

It’s all pumps blazing as we go to the wire.
( David Pleat )

You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you don’t expect them.
( Jan Molby )

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.
( Jose Mourinho )

Obstacles don’t have to stop you.
If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
( Michael Jordan )

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
( Billie Jean King )

Remember this.
Hold on to this.
This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.
This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning.
This is why we’re here.
( Andre Agassi )

I hated every minute of training, but I said:
“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion”.
( Muhammad Ali )