Ian Holloway famous quotes

03-28-2025

To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've done what you set out to do. We didn't look our best today but we pulled. Some weeks the lady is good looking and some weeks she's not. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #Nice #Coffee
Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish
-- Ian Holloway

#League #Mermaid #Making Love
I donâ€™t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I supposeÂ that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course theyâ€™d have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #Men #Games
My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #Running #Thinking
Every dog has its day - and today is woof day! Today I just want to bark.
-- Ian Holloway

#Dog #Want #Today
I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #Two #League
In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony Pulis uses in his cake gets talked about all the time is Rory's throw. Call that cinnamon and he's got a cinnamon flavoured cake.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #Cake #League
It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #League #Lucky
I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #Dark #League
The dietician is going to get rid of that when he comes in. Although, first, we've got to get a dietician.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #League #Firsts
I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #League #Half
You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #Dog #League
There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #Heart #League
I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #League #Needs
You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #Thinking #Swans
Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #Vintage #League
I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season!
-- Ian Holloway

#Badgers #Mating
Apparently itâ€™s my fault that the Titanic sank.
-- Ian Holloway

#Faults
If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy.
-- Ian Holloway

#Swag #House #Waiting
Sepp Blatter and all of them lot Mr Platini I know he was a good player but he aint very good at what he does, I donâ€™t think. I think heâ€™s useless you can quote me on that.
-- Ian Holloway

#Player #Thinking #Doe
Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.
-- Ian Holloway

#Stars #Moon #Sometimes
If I fell into a barrel of boobs, I'd come out sucking my thumb
-- Ian Holloway

#Thumbs #Barrels
He's going to be what?! Oh for God's sake. Sir David Beckham? You're having a laugh. He's just a good footballer with a famous bird.
-- Ian Holloway

#Laughing #Bird #Sake
It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #Play #Piano
This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out.
-- Ian Holloway

#Football #Tired #League

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