Bobby Robson Football Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

One day, someone will end a football game scoring more than Brazil. This MIGHT be the time that they lose!

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

There's nothing we won't do to try to bring success to Irish football. We need to spread our net, we need to find out where there are any more (players). We know what we should keep; we know what we need to collect. We've got to look further than the present crop. There's an awful lot of scouting to do but we're not afraid of that.