John Toshack famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't like champagne, I don't smoke cigars, I haven't any real jewellery at all, apart from the 8 pieces of gold I picked up at Anfield, the most important relationship at a football club is not between the manager and the chairman, but the players and the fans.
-- John Toshack

#Football #Real #Player
Winning all the time is not necessarily good.
-- John Toshack

#Football #Winning
It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.
-- John Toshack

#Men #Easy #Holes
I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience,
-- John Toshack

#Successful #Player #Knowledge And Experience
What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country,
-- John Toshack

#Country #Player #Hands
Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait,
-- John Toshack

#Men #Player #Rooney
We don't man-mark anybody. I have never, ever done it in 27 years as a manager and I would never do it,
-- John Toshack

#Men #Years #Done
When we have four or five players out it's very difficult to get any continuity at this stage in our development. If I pull the blanket over my head my feet get cold, and if I push it over my feet my head gets cold.
-- John Toshack

#Player #Feet #Development

Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But if you and I set up the Church of the Fairies of the Garden, then I don't think we should automatically be meeting the queen, be entitled to seats in the House of Lords or get public money for our fairy schools.
Women's football does have its knockers.
My dad means a lot to me. He's the one who put a football in my hands.
Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
I'm not a good guitar player.

John Toshack famous quotes

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