Craig Johnston Quotes

Australia, Football Player
June 25, 1960

Craig Peter Johnston (born 25 June 1960) is an Australian former professional footballer. He played as a midfielder in the English Football League between 1977 and 1988, winning five league titles and an FA Cup (scoring in the 1986 final) with Liverpool. Nicknamed "skippy", Johnston was a crowd favourite at Anfield, making 271 Liverpool appearances and scoring 40 goals. He was a key member of the 1986 "double" winning team. He also co-wrote the team's 1988 cup final song "Anfield Rap".

Our football program is bigger than any one person.

Craig Johnston
- Football
So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

Craig Johnston
- Time
- Car

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

Craig Johnston
- Football
- Player
- Soccer
Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

Craig Johnston
- Bad
The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

Craig Johnston
- Kids
- Reality
And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.

Craig Johnston
- World
- Good
- Kids
I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.

Craig Johnston
- Work
- Mind
You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

Craig Johnston

So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better.

Craig Johnston
- Car
We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

Craig Johnston
- Time
- Game
- Boss