English Athlete Quotations

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.

At that level, every goal is like a knife in the ribs.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

Don't forget this club nearly went out of extinction last year.

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.

I love the city and the people here. I've been with them for many years and I fought alongside them.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

I would like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that.

For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.

By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.

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

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.

Clients do not expect the infrastructure to be any less reliable just because the service is being delivered from an offshore location; thus, the uptime requirements justify the expense.

Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.

I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.

No, but you've got to be here in case something does happen.

Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never.

One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.

This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields.

I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald.

You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals when I got there in 1995. Now they have more than 15. And they didn't cost the fortune some suggest.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with this - we don't have to be out there with a lot of noise all the time. What we need to do is paint a vision for customers, promise them deliverables, and go hit at it.

So it was a hard decision but I know it is the right one.

The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal.

Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

The fight will last as long as I allow it to last, and then I will knock him out.

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here.

Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.

The only way I'd have gone was if it would better my career, I would not have gone just for the money. The point was to go to a club that could win trophies.

We have to be careful about creating more rules.

It will be a dream come true if I can go there and lift it.

It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.

That's a very critical phase in customer service because you can start to really understand what part of customer service has value to customers and what part is bothering customers.

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.

Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.

Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

We always had to play the game and play for the team. It is a Kent tradition.

I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.

I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.

I set myself high standards on the pitch and I know I have not always lived up to them this season.

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out.

I have been in there with all of them and there is nothing left for me to prove.

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.

I have a high degree of confidence about India's growth potential in IT.

The first year I sold a photo to was a lady who thought I was a chef, for some reason. I've no idea why.

Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

He can be as good as he wants to be; that's how good he can be.

I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive.

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.

We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that's the way it's always been.

That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it.

I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand.

Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.

Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do.

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other people for them to buy them. I was also relieved they weren't the last ones purchased, and that they sold for a pound more than the frame was worth.

I'm very comfortable in having a strong team. I'm very comfortable in sharing the limelight with the team.

One, we committed to put about 650 people in the field to focus totally on customer satisfaction.

Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop there every day for a year and capture how it changes, then put it all together to create an incredible image of a traditional English scene.

We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry is something that was required ten years ago.

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z, and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about?

But the real focus should be on people who are buying today because the base is so big it will take a long time for any change materialize on an overall basis.

If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face... No problem.

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

Few service industries are designed to be 24x7 in India, and thus there was no 24x7 mentality.

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they compare to the founder; I worry about doing the best I can.

So it's really for us about new products, because we have released a lot of new products.

There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned.

Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to.

So let's say you're using XYZ product and you want to do something very sophisticated. You subscribe to this thing, you hit a button, and a CA expert pops up in video.

To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.

There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring.

When I was playing, I wasn't drinking at the weekends. Not after the game, not on Sundays, when I would just relax, have a sauna, things like that.

Yes, I do want to get back into football, I haven't lost the faith. Alex wants to help with my fitness, keeping my edge and maintaining the focus.

When I emerged Liverpool had a tradition of their players working hard and playing hard, back before the Nineties and through all the glory era.

We had been getting some bad results, now it is up to us to make up the ground and catch Manchester United.

When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.

So I got to know the Liverpool character.

Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals.