"Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career"

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are"

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival"

"People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society"

"The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again"

"Football kicks you in the teeth"

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football"

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged"

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working"

"Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority"

"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model"