Ron Atkinson Quotes

It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.

Obviously, the good thing about golf, it's difficult to really, really blow it after five holes unless it goes really, really, really... really, really, really wrong. But you still have 13 to go, and if you have a good run, where you make five or six birdies, you can get it back somehow.

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

Conceding just before half-time never helps.

Early goals make us more confident and energetic for the rest of the game.

The game is 90 minutes long, and there are many phases.

The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.

On grass, many players can be dangerous because one break can decide a whole set.

I feel really good in the box when I get an AB in the first inning. I feel like it just starts the day the right way.

I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.

You can't just play on the edge of games - you have to be in the thick of it.

It's fun to learn a new playbook.

Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.

Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.

Part of me misses the days when we have four channels in England and we were all talking about everything all the time.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

I would walk back from the United States to play for England again.

I love England. In fact, they're getting to know me so well at Heathrow Immigration that this time I was able to completely bypass the six months rabies quarantine.

I have a tendency, especially when I'm playing with great players, to try and get them the ball.

It was my second show as a writer, and Justin Timberlake was just coming off boy-band stardom. People were rolling their eyes, but I used to watch the Mickey Mouse Club, and I knew all those kids were talented as hell. Justin was as comfortable on camera in that first episode as any of our cast members.

England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly.

As soon as the boy left the hall, Ramsey suggested that Brodick fill Gideon in on all that had transpired. "Our commanders are going to have to coordinate their efforts for the attack," he said. "Iain wants Winslow and Dylan and you to handpick the soldiers who'll ride with us into England." "We're attacking England?" Gideon asked, astonished. "No," Brodick answered. "Though the thought of it warms my heart.

I've got my own targets... To establish myself in the team and once you are a regular for Liverpool then England, recognition comes from that and hopefully this will prove the case.