Joleon Lescott famous quotes

I'm a footballer, I don't think past next Saturday.
-- Joleon Lescott

#Past #Thinking #Next

Once the whistle goes, it's game on and you shut out the outside factors. If you thought about things, you wouldn't be able to do your job. For 95 minutes you have to totally concentrate and that's what we'll do.
-- Joleon Lescott

#Jobs #Games #Able

It really doesn’t matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.
-- Joleon Lescott

#Mistake #Matter #Helping

As footballers, we have time on our hands. Yes, we work very hard but we also have spare afternoons.
-- Joleon Lescott

#Hands #Afternoon #Footballer

Samir Nasri is well dressed every day. He always makes the effort. Always. I have never seen him look anything but immaculate.
-- Joleon Lescott

#Effort #Looks #Well Dressed

I don't believe you can buy style. Money won't make you look good.
-- Joleon Lescott

#Believe #Style #Looks

It really doesn’t matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible for making that mistake. It helps to have a manager who can be cool but as an individual you tend to be in control of your own emotions.
-- Joleon Lescott

#Mistake #Matter #Helping

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute

The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.