Jimmy Greaves Quotations

Since I stopped playing, people have been comparing strikers with me. If anyone wants to say it about Michael Owen, however, they are quite welcome.

Ian St. John: Is he speaking to you yet?Greaves: Not yet, but I hope to be incommunicado with him in a very short space of time.

Jimmy's death devastated my wife, Irene, and myself. It nearly drove us out of our minds,

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

As parents, you expect your children to outlive you and when that doesn't happen, you become an empty shell. Jimmy was a beautiful boy and his time on this earth was all too brief. It kind of puts losing my World Cup winner's medal to Geoff into perspective, doesn't it? But you don't go through life without having some really bad times, and I've had some great times, too.

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

He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post.

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

Portsmouth are at Huddersfield, which is always away

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

Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.

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

We are really the victims of our own problems

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.

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

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