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English footballer and manager, Birth: 18-3-1939 Ron Atkinson Quotes
1.
Zero-zero is a big score.
Ron Atkinson

2.
I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.
Ron Atkinson

3.
I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.
Ron Atkinson

4.
One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.
Ron Atkinson

5.
You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past they'll take the ball.
Ron Atkinson

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6.
Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.
Ron Atkinson

7.
For me their biggest threat is when they get into the attacking part of the field.
Ron Atkinson

8.
Women should be in the kitchen, the discotheque and the boutique, but not in football.
Ron Atkinson

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9.
He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces
Ron Atkinson

10.
Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it
Ron Atkinson

11.
I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.
Ron Atkinson

12.
You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area.
Ron Atkinson

13.
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

14.
They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.
Ron Atkinson

15.
There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.
Ron Atkinson

16.
I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.
Ron Atkinson

17.
Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1.
Ron Atkinson

18.
Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly.
Ron Atkinson

19.
Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.
Ron Atkinson

20.
Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.
Ron Atkinson

21.
How are they defensively, attacking-wise?
Ron Atkinson

22.
He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word.
Ron Atkinson

23.
He must be lightning slow.
Ron Atkinson

24.
They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.
Ron Atkinson

25.
I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.
Ron Atkinson

26.
On another night, they'd have won 2-2.
Ron Atkinson

27.
Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.
Ron Atkinson

28.
His head just disappeared into his shoulders.
Ron Atkinson

29.
Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs.
Ron Atkinson

30.
Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard.
Ron Atkinson

31.
His white boots were on fire against Arsenal, and he'll be looking for them to reproduce tonight.
Ron Atkinson

32.
Woodcock would have scored but his shot was too perfect.
Ron Atkinson

33.
There's a little triangle - five left-footed players.
Ron Atkinson

34.
Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.
Ron Atkinson

35.
I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.
Ron Atkinson

36.
That was Pele's strength - holding people off with his arm.
Ron Atkinson

37.
If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.
Ron Atkinson

38.
You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.
Ron Atkinson

39.
They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.
Ron Atkinson

40.
Apart from picking the ball out of the net, he hasn't had to make a save.
Ron Atkinson

41.
I think that was a moment of cool panic there.
Ron Atkinson

42.
We haven't had a strategic free kick all night. No one's knocked over attackers ad lib.
Ron Atkinson

43.
They've done the old-fashioned things well; they've kicked the ball, they've headed it.
Ron Atkinson

44.
He's the equivalent of the Spanish David Beckham.
Ron Atkinson

45.
The keeper was unsighted - he still didn't see it.
Ron Atkinson

46.
They scored too early.
Ron Atkinson

47.
Lee Dixon will be up against two South American left-handers tonight.
Ron Atkinson

48.
A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that.
Ron Atkinson

49.
I would also think that the replay showed it to be worse than it actually was.
Ron Atkinson

50.
Chelsea look like they've got a couple more gears left in the locker.
Ron Atkinson