Gascoigne Quotes & Sayings

All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say, 'Why don't you just put the gun away, throw it in the river? The police are not going to kill you. — Paul Gascoigne

She gave a shiver, and suddenly clutched her arms about her body. She spoke, Gascoigne thought, with an exhilarated fatigue, the kind that comes after the first blush of love, when the self has lost its mooring, and, half-drowning, succumbs to a fearful tide. But addiction was not love; it could not be love. Gascoigne could not romanticize the purple shadows underneath her eyes, her wasted limbs, the dreamy disorientation with which she spoke; but even so, he thought, it was uncanny that opium's ruin could mirror love's raptures with such fidelity. — Eleanor Catton

Gascoigne believed that justice ought to be a synonym for mercy, not an alternative. — Eleanor Catton

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.. — Glenn Hoddle

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace. — George Gascoigne

At the end of it, I'll maybe do a coaching badge but I'm not going to get forced into things. — Paul Gascoigne

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in. — Paul Gascoigne

I don't really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it's safe, and the guys don't go to the papers and tell them what I've done. — Paul Gascoigne

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when. — Paul Gascoigne

The Raynbowe bending in the skye,Bedeckte with sundrye hewes,Is lyke the seate of God on hye,And seemes to tell these newes:That as thereby he promised,To drowne the worlde no more,So by the bloud whiche Christe hath shead,He will oure health restore. — George Gascoigne

I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I've got loads of love to give. — Paul Gascoigne

It was his pleasure to strike up friendships within the servile classes, with children, with beggars, with animals, with plain women and forgotten men. His courtesies were always extended to those who did not expect courtesy: when he encountered a man whose station was beneath him, he was never rude. To the higher classes, however, he held himself apart. He was not ungracious, but his manner was jaded and wistful, even unimpressed - a practice that, though not a strategy in any real sense, tended to win him a great deal of respect, and earn him a place among the inheritors of land and fortune, quite as if he had set out to end up there. In this way Aubert Gascoigne, — Eleanor Catton

And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke.
[The more the merrier.] — George Gascoigne

I never make predictions and I never will. — Paul Gascoigne

It was a big relief off my shoulder. — Paul Gascoigne

Daft as a brush? I'm daft, but I'm not daft as a brush! — Paul Gascoigne

I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer. — Paul Gascoigne

Sing lullabie, as women do,Wherewith they bring their babes to rest;And lullabie can I sing to,As womanly as can the best. — George Gascoigne

I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne. — George Gascoigne

I'm a better person now, and not only that - I'm a better man — Paul Gascoigne

I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak. — Paul Gascoigne

The gods are jealous and men are fools. — Marc Gascoigne

I've had 14 bookings this season-eight of which were my fault, but seven of which were disputable. — Paul Gascoigne

For Gascoigne and Clinch were not so dissimilar in temperament, and even in their differences, showed a harmony of sorts - with Gascoigne as the upper octave, the clearer, brighter sound, and Clinch as the bass-note, thrumming. — Eleanor Catton

I'm going to do things when they are right for me. — Paul Gascoigne

I know I would have had a lot more trophies in my cabinet if I went with him [Sir Alex Ferguson]. — Paul Gascoigne

The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing. — Paul Ince

Scholesy is one of my favourite players of all time. He was a great professional who had everything and I used to love playing with him. You could give him the ball in any position, he would take one touch and you would know exactly what the next move would be. [ ... ] He was magical, pure class. — Paul Gascoigne

A boy is better unborn than untaught. — Paul Gascoigne

The rainbow bending in the sky, Bedecked with sundry hues, Is like the seat of God on high And seems to tell thee news: That, as thereby he promised To drown the world no more, So by the blood which Christ hath shed He will our health restore. — George Gascoigne

I never predict anything, and I never will. — Paul Gascoigne

How sweet war is to such as know it not. — George Gascoigne

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn. — Paul Gascoigne

Further, deeper still, those whose true names are for ever hidden from the world picked up the pattern of vibrations in the ether, and something akin to joy stirred in their fathomless minds. Perhaps soon they would be called upon to feed. — Marc Gascoigne

No one is ever going to be as good as I was — Paul Gascoigne

She was tried for trying to take her own life," Gascoigne said. "There's a symmetry in that, do you not think? Tried for trying. — Eleanor Catton

I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness. — Paul Gascoigne

What is the world coming to when you get a red card and get fined two weeks' wages for calling a grown man a wanker? — Paul Gascoigne

One could know a thousand women, Gascoigne thought; one could take a different girl every night for years and years - but sooner or later, the new lovers would do little more than call to mind the old, and one would be forced to wander, lost, in that reflective maze of endless comparison, forever disappointed, forever turning back. — Eleanor Catton

If the fans want me out, I'll put my hands up and leave. Like a proper man. I won't make excuses, I'll leave. — Paul Gascoigne

I've learnt and I just want to be respected for what I've achieved on the pitch. I know I haven't achieved much off it but I do know I've given pleasure to people watching me play football over the years. — Paul Gascoigne

Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them — Paul Gascoigne

Suffiseth this to proove my theame withall,That every bullet hath a lighting place. — George Gascoigne

You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no. — Paul Gascoigne

Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected. — Paul Gascoigne

I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from. — Paul Gascoigne

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now. — Paul Gascoigne

Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager. — Paul Gascoigne

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got. — Paul Gascoigne

I'll tell you what my real dream is. I mean my absolute number one dream that will mean I die a happy man if it happens. I want to see a UFO. They're real. I don't care if you look at me like that. UFO's are a definite fact and I've got to see one soon. — Paul Gascoigne

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better. — Paul Gascoigne

Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne,
Poets who wrote great poems, one by one,
And spaced by many years, each line an act
Through which few labor, which no men retract.
This passion is the scholar's heritage — Yvor Winters

But if I wasn't playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away. — Paul Gascoigne

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was. — Paul Gascoigne

But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend. — Paul Gascoigne

They say Paul Gascoigne is the new George Best but has he shagged three Miss Worlds? — George Best

I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable. — Paul Gascoigne

I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time. — Paul Gascoigne

Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to. — Paul Gascoigne

I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow. — Paul Gascoigne

Full many wanton babes have I,
Which must be stilled with lullaby. — George Gascoigne

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia. — Paul Gascoigne

I'll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful. — Paul Gascoigne

Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through. — Paul Gascoigne

My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job. — Glenn Hoddle

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why. — Paul Gascoigne