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| chairbear | "If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there" | | |
| The Major Oak | "I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one" | | |
| The Major Oak | "I only ever hit Roy the once. He got up so I couldn't have hit him very hard" | | |
| The Major Oak | "We talk about it for 20 minutes and then we decide I was right" | | |
| The Major Oak | "I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd because that's exactly what I would have done" | | |
| The Major Oak | "For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls" | | |
| The Major Oak | "I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball? He might grab mine" | | |
| The Major Oak | "Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius" | | |
| The Major Oak | "That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that" | | |
| The Major Oak | "Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive" | | |
| The Major Oak | "Football hooligans - well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start" | | |
| The Major Oak | "I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat" | | |
| The Major Oak | "On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be" | | |
| The Major Oak | "Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes" | | |
| The Major Oak | "The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years" | | |
| The Major Oak | "They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job" | | |
| The Major Oak | "Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right" | | |
| The Major Oak | "When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair" | | |
| The Major Oak | "I bet their dressing room will smell of garlic rather than liniment over the next few months." | | |
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