Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Jimmy Greaves

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English athlete Jimmy Greaves.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

James Peter Greaves was an English professional footballer who played as a forward. He is England's fifth-highest international goalscorer, Tottenham Hotspur's highest ever goalscorer, the highest goalscorer in the history of English top-flight football, and also scored more hat-tricks (six) for England than anyone else. He finished as the First Division's top scorer in six seasons. He is also a member of the English Football Hall of Fame.

English - Athlete | Born: February 20, 1940

Source: Wikipedia

We signed to play until the day we died, and we did.

Jimmy Greaves

We are really the victims of our own problems.

Jimmy Greaves

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

Jimmy Greaves

The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

Jimmy Greaves

We are really the victims of our own problems

Jimmy Greaves

Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with the gold gun emblem sewn into their pockets and grey slacks. We couldn’t match their ground with that beautiful main entrance, marble halls and spiral staircase. Even in 1961 when we won the Double, we were never as big a club as Arsenal.

Jimmy Greaves

Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.

Jimmy Greaves

I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do

Jimmy Greaves

Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.

Jimmy Greaves

Portsmouth are at Huddersfield, which is always away

Jimmy Greaves

The only thing Norwich didn't get was the goal that they finally got

Jimmy Greaves

The biggest regret of my whole football career was leaving White Hart Lane in 1970.....my interest in football weakened after that. I was heartbroken