Women who choose to stay home and raise their families make one of the most valuable contributions to society. as far as I am concerned.Collection: Society
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.Collection: Death
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.Collection: Business
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.Collection: Age
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.
That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.
My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.
Believe it or not, cricket was my first love. I would genuinely have swapped the dream of a winning goal at Wembley for a century against the Australians at Lord's.
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.
Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.
My early memories are full of football talk around the house, of Dad standing on the terraces at Ayresome Park, of the occasional precious new pair of boots.
What joy and adventure the youngsters of today are missing as they sit indoors mucking about with computer games and videos!
Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.
To me, scoring goals was just like other boys might regard delivering papers. I just did it - every day.
I was never, ever physically afraid. My terms of reference were basic and simple: put the ball in the net. That was my job, that's the way I saw it, and I allowed nothing and nobody to distract me from that purpose.
We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.
We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.Collection: Sports
If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!Collection: Player
If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch.Collection: Player
Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships.Collection: League
If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.Collection: Funny
Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.Collection: Soccer
There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.Collection: Football
I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.Collection: Cat
They love me for what I'm not They hate me for what I am.Collection: Hate
Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.Collection: Leicester
It only takes a second to score a goal.Collection: Goal
For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!Collection: Soccer
I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball - he might grab mine.Collection: Soccer
Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.Collection: Prime
If any one of my players isn’t interfering with play, they’re not getting paid.Collection: Player
I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.Collection: Running
Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody.Collection: Team
If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.Collection: Soccer
The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.Collection: Player
I’ve decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully – in about 200 years’ time.Collection: Years
Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.Collection: Soccer
I'm dealing with my drinking problem and I have a reputation for getting things done.Collection: Drinking