BOBBY ROBSON

Practice makes permanent.

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

Home advantage gives you an advantage.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The margin is very marginal.

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

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

Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

Ray Wilkins' day will come one night

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.