Author: Bobby Robson

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

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

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Where do you get an experienced player like him with a left foot and a head?

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

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Their football was exceptionally good – and they played some good football.

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

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

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We’re flying on the Concorde; that’ll shorten the distance — that’s self-explanatory.

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Steve Hodge has been unfit for two weeks, well, no, for 14 days.

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There will be a game where somebody scores more than Brazil and that might be the game that they lose.

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

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We’ve got great speed in the team, not just Gary Speed, but great speed!

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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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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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Until we’re out of the Champions’ League we’re still in it.

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I’m not going to look beyond the semi-final – but I would love to lead Newcastle out at the final.

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

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Titus looks like Tyson when he strips off in the dressing-room, except he doesn’t bite and has a great tackle.

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Players only understand substitutions when they become managers.

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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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