Bobby Robson
"The first 90 minutes are the most important."

David Beckham
"Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had"

Denis Law
"It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal."

Dick Butkus
"I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important -like a league game or something."

Eric Morecambe
" I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back."

Gary Lineker
"There's no in between - you're either good or bad. We were in between."

Glen Hoddle
"When a player gets to 30, so does his body."

Graeme Le Saux
"The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it."

Howard Wilkinson
"If they hadn't scored, we would've won."

Ian Wright (ex-Arsenal)
"Without being too harsh on David Beckham, he cost us the match."

Ian Rush On the difficulties of adjusting to playing football and living in Italy
"It was like being in a foreign country."

Jack Charlton
"It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there."

Neville Southall
"If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day."