Celtic Football Quotes & Sayings

As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life. — Neil Lennon

It's us. It's you and me. I don't care about any of this stuff. We can go home; we can go back to my gym and just work out if you want. I don't care. We don't have to do "normal" things. We can just be us. What we have isn't normal; and I don't see why it should be. — Sarah Skilton

But leanness is a methodology, not a goal. Making small changes to things that already exist might lead you to a local maximum, but it won't help you find the global maximum. — Peter Thiel

This Celtic football club is much more than a football club to a lot of people its a way of life- — Robert Kelly

I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction. — Archie Macpherson

It's not just a football club. Celtic means so much to so many people. — Fergus McCann

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. — Charles E. Wilson

I can never hope to find words to express my feelings at becoming a member of the Celtic Football Club. — Sean Fallon

As the Protestants celebrate a goal, they're egged on by the team captain, a long-haired Italian called Lorenzo Amoruso, who has the look of a 1980s male model. Flailing his arms, he urges them to sing their anti-Catholic songs louder. The irony is obvious: Amoruso is a Catholic. For that matter, so are most of the Rangers players. Since the late nineties, Rangers routinely field nearly as many Catholics as Celtic. Their players come from Georgia, Argentina, Germany, Sweden, Portugal and Holland, because money can buy no better ones. Championships mean more than religious purity. — Franklin Foer

Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries. — Xavi

But being without a mother is like being stripped naked and thrown into the snow. — Nadia Hashimi

It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK (60,000 seats); having the largest support (52,000 season book holders) of any club in Britain. This has been achieved by everyone who cares about Celtic working together towards a shared vision of football success and pride in a club which is part of our culture, open to all and a responsible member of the community working to help others where it can. — Fergus McCann

Celtic have scored in the 50th consecutive game in which they've managed to score — Barry Davies

That charity fund, inside and outside Scotland is a very important identity of Celtic Football Club. — Fergus McCann

The reality, ... is that I need to win games of football. That's where the pressure and the sleepless nights come from. There's a fantasy pressure with this job but none of that matters. I need to make this team into a good unit, need to take it forward, give it a change of pace, need to get it younger and to use the experience of the lads we've got here. I need Lennon and Sutton and people like that to go and show how you handle being a Celtic player. — Gordon Strachan

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard. — Gordon Strachan

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic. — Gordon Strachan

Once Celtic got their equaliser, they played a sort of anti-football. — Frank Rijkaard

I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too. — Rod Stewart