Sam Allardyce Quotes

Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.

At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.

Managers come and go, and first-team coaches and players can leave suddenly.

To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life.

When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go - they get injured, they get transferred, they get cut from the team. Coaches are hired, and coaches are fired. It's just part of the world you live in.

The world is changing so quickly, it's hard to get anything right for long.

The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

It's a disappointment to lose key players. On the other hand it creates an opportunity to play other players.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

It's a volatile time.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

Washington is unpredictable these days.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

Instability is never a good idea.

This business is so unstable, and you never really know where you're going to be.

In this business, you can come and go in a second.