Johnny Giles Quotes

When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.

I'm not someone that's gonna get up in your face all the time and all that kind of stuff. I mean, I don't think I have a temper.

I want to show in a violent sport like our sport, you don't need to hurt anybody in order to win.

I have an aggressive streak of my own.

It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.

There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, 'I can kick your butt!' So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

I'm quite subdued, believe it or not. I switch it on for the camera.

Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.

My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

People have kind of latched on with my personality and how I play golf and how I carry myself. It seems like every town we go to, I'm experiencing newer things with these types of fans.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

If we allow the passions of our men to get full command then indeed will this war become a reproach to the names of liberty and civilization.

You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.

Football is an emotional game, and that is why we love it, but part of the work I have to do is to control that emotion both for me and my players.

I don't understand moderation. I'm not the nice guy.

You have to enjoy winning and being part of a successful team, just being a young bloke. But at the same time you want to be back page and not front page news and be spoken about for your cricket and contributing to winning rather than getting it wrong on a night out.

I enjoy fighting, but my family says, 'Stop, no.'

No one has ever bitten me, and I've never bitten anyone on the court.