Craig Johnston famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.
-- Craig Johnston

#Flower #Sunshine #Car
You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.
-- Craig Johnston

#Football #Commitment #Skills
And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.
-- Craig Johnston

#Football #Team #Kids
So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.
-- Craig Johnston

#Years #Skills #Two
We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.
-- Craig Johnston

#Games #Boss #Trials
It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.
-- Craig Johnston

#Sports #Practice #Eggs
Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.
-- Craig Johnston

#Footballer
I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition.
-- Craig Johnston

#Years #Recognition #Ignored
OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.
-- Craig Johnston

#Soccer #Football #Mistake
The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.
-- Craig Johnston

#Kids #Reality #Stories
Our football program is bigger than any one person.
-- Craig Johnston

#Football #Program #Bigger

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