Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Ron Atkinson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British athlete Ron Atkinson.

Last updated on September 7, 2024.

Ronald Frederick Atkinson, commonly known as "Big Ron" or "Mr. Bojangles", is an English former football player and manager. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he was regarded as one of Britain's best-known football pundits.

British - Athlete | Born: March 18, 1939

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Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.

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He must be lightning slow.

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I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.

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I think that was a moment of cool panic there.

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Zero-zero is a big score.

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I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won.

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He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.

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How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

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At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.

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One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.

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They've done the old-fashioned things well; they've kicked the ball, they've headed it.

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We haven't had a strategic free kick all night. No one's knocked over attackers ad lib.

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I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

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Yordi circumnavigated Ledley King there.

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You don't want to be giving away free-kicks in the penalty area.

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Lee Dixon will be up against two South American left-handers tonight.

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They scored too early.

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He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word.

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He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces

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Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.

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I'm sure Bobby won't want them to be losing the match before winning it.

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A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that.

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They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.

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Woodcock would have scored but his shot was too perfect.

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Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'

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All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

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Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

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Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it

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There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.

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I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

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Well, Clive, it's all about the two Ms - movement and positioning.

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

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They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.

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They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise.

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There's a little triangle - five left-footed players.

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I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

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If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.

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Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1.

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There's a few tired limbs in the blue legs.

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Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard.

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His white boots were on fire against Arsenal, and he'll be looking for them to reproduce tonight.

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Chelsea look like they've got a couple more gears left in the locker.

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...was treading on dangerous water there... (on Phil Neville)

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You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.

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You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past they'll take the ball.

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Women should be in the kitchen, the discotheque and the boutique, but not in football.

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Jari Litmanen should be made compulsory.

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