Ron Atkinson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Funny #Basketball #Football
Zero-zero is a big score.
-- Ron Atkinson

#Zero #Athlete #Bigs
Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.
-- Ron Atkinson

#Funny #Soccer #Football
I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.
-- Ron Atkinson

#Funny #Football #Way
You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.
-- Ron Atkinson

#Football #Rising #Half
Women should be in the kitchen, the discotheque and the boutique, but not in football.
-- Ron Atkinson

#Football #Kitchen #Should
Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.
-- Ron Atkinson

#Soccer #Football #Athlete
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

#Football #Past #Men
There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.
-- Ron Atkinson

#Soccer #Football #Player
Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it
-- Ron Atkinson

#Balls #Traps #Kicks
I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.
-- Ron Atkinson

#Soccer #Football #Player
He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces
-- Ron Atkinson

#Soccer #Football #Funny Sports
You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area.
-- Ron Atkinson

#Giving #Want #Penalties
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

#Soccer #Football #Taken
Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'
-- Ron Atkinson

#Football #Thinking #Liverpool
For me their biggest threat is when they get into the attacking part of the field.
-- Ron Atkinson

#Fields #England #Attacking
Jari Litmanen should be made compulsory.
-- Ron Atkinson

#England #Made #Should
Apart from picking the ball out of the net, he hasn't had to make a save.
-- Ron Atkinson

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

#Wise #Mean #England
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

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

#Soccer #Football #Shoulders
They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.
-- Ron Atkinson

#England #Nothing To Lose #Loses
I think that was a moment of cool panic there.
-- Ron Atkinson

#Athlete #Thinking #Panic
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

#Football #Games #Manchester United
At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.
-- Ron Atkinson

#Giving #Balls #Levels

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