Alan Curbishley Quotes

I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.

Alan Curbishley

• Football
• Crime
• Stamping Out

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• Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Stress
  • Crime
  • Frustration

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

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Career
  • Football
  • inspirational

• On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Great
  • Football
  • Wall

• A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Reality
  • Author

• What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Crime
  • Personal
  • Signature

• The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Love
  • Game
  • Football

• I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Walk

• The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People
  • Company
  • Crime

• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Strong

• No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Guilty
  • Crime

• I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Today

• Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Job
  • Football
  • Lovely

• We have a culture in Freeport, especially in our football department. We feel that we're the best team on Long Island, in New York, hands down.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Long
  • Culture
  • Team

• If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Football
  • Player

• Young kids should probably not play tackle football. I know this intellectually, but emotionally, I'm conflicted. I love this sport. I grew up playing and adoring football. I love the brotherhood, teamwork, athletic grace that borders on superhuman, grit, pressure and, yes, contact. I love the contact.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Football

• I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Football

• In England, the referees don't call many fouls, as opposed to Spanish football. Consequently, you must be really strong all through the 90 minutes.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Strong
  • Football
  • Spanish

• Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that.

  

  Bo Jackson
  • Community
  • Football
  • Baseball

• Boxing should not let - we should not let - the people in business of boxing should not let a person to just walk right in and get the grand prize of boxing. You can't do it in basketball, football, hockey.

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • People
  • Business
  • Football

• I suppose you do think about the time that's allotted to you more than when you were younger. The mortality thing obviously has a stronger pull for you. It's an imminent truth; it's not necessarily a bad thing. You realize - much earlier than my age now - that you won't be able to play for England's football team, just to take a really crass example. So you can't have that life again. Unless you believe in reincarnation or whatever. Reincarnation? That's a whole other question. I find people who talk about that sort of thing in interviews idiotic. And I don't want to go down with them.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Alone
  • Artist

• Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Broken

• In drama school, I learned I wasn't as good as I thought I was. But I loved stage combat, and I knew that would pay the bills.

  

  Philip Winchester
  • Good
  • School
  • Drama

• I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.

  

  Alan Curbishley
  • Football
  • Crime
  • Stamping Out