Best 57 quotes of Ron Atkinson on MyQuotes

All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

Apart from picking the ball out of the net, he hasn't had to make a save.

A ten-foot keeper really should have stopped that.

At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.

Beckenbauer has really gambled all his eggs.

Carlton Palmer can trap the ball further than I can kick it

Chelsea are the team who can break the Arsenal and Manchester United monopoly.

Chelsea look like they've got a couple more gears left in the locker.

He dribbles a lot and the opposition don't like it - you can see it all over their faces

He'll take some pleasure from that, Brian Carey. He and Steve Bull have been having it off all afternoon.

He must be lightning slow.

Heskey needs to punch his own weight.

He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.

He's not only a good player, but he's spiteful in the nicest sense of the word.

His white boots were on fire against Arsenal, and he'll be looking for them to reproduce tonight.

If you score against the Italians you deserve a goal.

I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.

I'm afraid they've left their legs at home.

I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.

I'm sure Bobby won't want them to be losing the match before winning it.

I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat.

I tell you what, if the Cameroons get a goal back here they're literally gonna catch on fire.

I think that was a moment of cool panic there.

I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won.

I would also think that the replay showed it to be worse than it actually was.

I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

Lee Dixon will be up against two South American left-handers tonight.

Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'

Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard.

Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1.

On another night, they'd have won 2-2.

One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.

Scholes and Van Nistelrooy drugged the last two defenders.

Scholes is very influential for England at international level.

Someone in the England team will have to grab the ball by the horns.

That's not the type of header you want to see your defender make, with his hand.

That was Pele's strength - holding people off with his arm.

The ball goes down the keeper's throat where it hits him on the knees to say the least.

Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender.

There's a few tired limbs in the blue legs.

There's a little triangle - five left-footed players.

There's nobody fitter at his age, except maybe Raquel Welch.

The Spaniards have been reduced to aiming aimless balls into the box.

They must go for it now as they have nothing to lose but the match.

They've picked their heads up off the ground, and they now have a lot to carry on their shoulders.

They've come out at half time and gone bang.

They've done the old-fashioned things well; they've kicked the ball, they've headed it.

This is the best Man United have played in Europe this season and, conversely, the opposition has been excellent.

...was treading on dangerous water there...  (on Phil Neville)

We haven't had a strategic free kick all night. No one's knocked over attackers ad lib.