Bobby Robson Quotations

The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result

We've got great speed in the team, not just Gary Speed, but great speed!

Football's like a big market place and people go to the market every day to buy their vegetables.

We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.

Practice makes permanent.

If you count your chickens before theyve hatched, they wont lay an egg.

Ray Wilkins' day will come one night

Don't ask me what a typical Brazilian is because I don't know what a typical Brazilian is. But Romario was a typical Brazilian.

It would have been nice if both players had maybe shaken hands with each other

When Gazza was dribbling he used to go through a minefield with his arm, a bit like you go through a supermarket.

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy)

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

Don't count your eggs until the chicken's laid them.

We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

We haven't scored which means you haven't got a chance of winning.

He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

The first ninety minutes are the most important.

If you don't score you are not going to win a match.

There is only one word to describe football and that is 'if only'.

Well we got nine and you can't score more than that

In a year's time, he's a year older.

The margin is very marginal.

Home advantage gives you an advantage

Titus looks like Tyson when he strips off in the dressing-room, except he doesn't bite and has a great tackle.

There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.

If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket

I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about

We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game

Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes

We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

I am really looking forward to working with the new manager and his team. Stephen's record and reputation speak for themselves and I am delighted to help and advise Stephen in any way he sees fit.

But at 0-0 in the last five minutes you could go out of this competition. It would be like being a cat on a hot tin roof. The first goal will be very important.

Whatever age they might be now, they should feel that same desire for wanting to play for their country -- passion, enthusiasm, attitude and commitment are vital to us.

We have to be focused on one game. If you are professional it is not hard,

I said to the lads in the dressing room at half time, I said, there was nothing to say.

We haven't paid 25 million and 10 million and all the dazzling figures you see being banded about for strikers at the moment. We've been very clever and frugal in our dealings. He's not cheap, he's not for nothing, but we're very happy with the deal.

We had an inner strength and the players are better for that experience. We played the big teams and were never outclassed.

We were almost faultless against Arsenal when we drew 0-0 on Sunday and one of the best teams in Europe did not score against us,

We can't replace Rooney, I don't think there's another player like him in the country... there's hardly another player like him in Europe.

We have to bring that into our game.

We gathered great experience in the Champions League last season and you cannot beat experience in whatever you do,

There's nothing we won't do to try to bring success to Irish football. We need to spread our net, we need to find out where there are any more (players). We know what we should keep; we know what we need to collect. We've got to look further than the present crop. There's an awful lot of scouting to do but we're not afraid of that.

One day, someone will end a football game scoring more than Brazil. This MIGHT be the time that they lose!

This is rotten luck and taken the edge off the result. Other teams will be laughing now.

It is rare that you find two players of the same team slugging it out with each other, it is very unfortunate.

I took a risk in putting Dyer on because I trusted our public. They didn't let me down,

I'm delighted to help and advise Stephen in any way he sees fit. I'm totally confident that the Irish international team has a really bright future.

I'm sure that I should call him boss and I will.

In my feeling, it's very similar to the feeling in the city when the club decided to bring Alan Shearer back here.

I didn't take the Hearts job for personal reasons.

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself

George had such great courage on the ball,

The game is on a precipice but hopefully we can dismiss one of my former clubs from the competition.