Author: Bobby Robson

If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won’t lay any eggs in the basket.

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

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The margin is very marginal.

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

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People want success. It's like coffee, they want instant.

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We don’t have to play them every week, although we do play them next week.

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Byron Butler: You'd obviously made up your mind to play both Stein and Walsh?

Bobby Robson: Yes, I thought that individually and as a pair, they'd do better together.

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He’s the only man I know who could start an argument with himself.

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Some of the goals were good, some of the goals were skeptical.

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Well we got nine and you can't score more than that.

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I said to the lads at halftime, I said, there was nothing to say.

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Look at those olive trees – they’re two hundred years old – from before the time of Christ!

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Eighteen months ago they (Sweden) were arguably one of the best three teams in Europe, and that would include Germany, Holland, Russia and anybody else if you like.

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I do want to play the long ball and I do not want to play the short ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.

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He’s got his legs back, of course, or his leg – he’s always had one but now he’s got two.

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Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result.

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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.

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Maybe not goodbye, but farewell…

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We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game.

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They can’t change any of their players, but they have changed one of their players and that’s the coach.

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Practice makes permanent.

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