Top 35 Quotes & Sayings by Bobby Robson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English athlete Bobby Robson.

Last updated on September 16, 2024.

Sir Robert William Robson was an English footballer and football manager. His career included periods playing for and later managing the England national team and being a UEFA Cup-winning manager at Ipswich Town.

English - Athlete | February 18, 1933 - July 31, 2009

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Practice makes permanent.

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

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

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Home advantage gives you an advantage.

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If you count your chickens before theyve hatched, they wont lay an egg.

Bobby Robson

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

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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.

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The first ninety minutes are the most important.

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Don't count your eggs until the chicken's laid them.

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

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We can't replace Gary Speed - where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

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Ray Wilkins' day will come one night

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The margin is very marginal.

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

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We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.

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He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy)

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If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay any eggs in the basket

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

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

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It would have been nice if both players had maybe shaken hands with each other

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

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

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The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

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

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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.

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When Gazza was dribbling he used to go through a minefield with his arm, a bit like you go through a supermarket.

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He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

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Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

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

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Home advantage gives you an advantage

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

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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.

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Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes

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

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

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