Venables Quotes & Sayings

Fella's a genius. Best ever by a distance in my life time. Never really saw Pele ... Souness, Gullit, Venables and now Rooney agree Messi is the best they have seen. He plays a game with which we are not familiar. — Gary Lineker

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again. — Terry Venables

What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another. — Cargill Gilston Knott

I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better. — Denis Leary

Penalties put too much strain on one player. It could ruin his career if he's not a strong character. — Terry Venables

If you can't outplay the opposition, you must outnumber them. — Terry Venables

Don't die with the story inside! — Gary D. Drechsel

The only way Marc Bircham will be going to Tottenham is if he buys a f****** season ticket. — Terry Venables

Men ask for a rainbow in the cloud; but I would ask more from Thee. I would be, in my cloud, myself a rainbow -- a minister to others' joy. My patience will be perfect when it can work in the vineyard — George Matheson

I love getting older! I really believe that a woman doesn't reach her peak until her 40s. — Evangeline Lilly

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. — John Ruskin

Certain people are for me and certain people are pro me. — Terry Venables

I felt a lump in my throat as the ball went in. — Terry Venables

If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen. — Terry Venables

and it looked like her shadow was seeping out of her body. — Shane Jiraiya Cummings

Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You have time for your friendships and you appreciate them in ways that you didn't before. — Anna Quindlen

They didn't change positions, they just moved the players around. — Terry Venables

That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs. — Jimmy Hill

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance. — Phyllis Bottome

The spirit he has shown has been second to none.
(on Terry Fenwick's drunk-driving charge) — Terry Venables

I have never seen anything like that before. He must have given his last three managers heart attacks. I like to see those sort of things - as long as they come from the other goalkeeper. — Terry Venables

There are two ways of getting the ball. One is from your own team-mates, and that's the only way — Terry Venables

My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent. — Valerie Jarrett

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics. — Alan Moore

I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: If I was saved by my good works
then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through. I would be like a taxpayer with rights. I would have done my duty and now I would deserve a certain quality of life. But if it is really true that I am a sinner saved by sheer grace
at God's infinite cost
then there's nothing he cannot ask of me. — Timothy Keller

Apart from their goals, Norway haven't scored. — Terry Venables

Everybody says Steve McManaman played on the left for me in Euro 96 but he never played on the left. The one time he did play on the left was against Switzerland. — Terry Venables

If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction. — Ice Cube

Sometimes I think I'll never trust another girl the way I trust you. — Jenny Han

If you want change, you've got to stick with it. — Terry Venables

Come on, Beamer! I beheaded you for your own good. — S.J. Kincaid