Bobby Robson Quotes

Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

I've had matches that were close.

That's why everybody loves to tune in and watch these fights, because at any given moment, any given fight, any given fighters, anything can happen. A fighter could win nine out of 10 times, but there's always that one time.

Some things really don't matter.

I don't care about hundreds, fifties, averages.

It's a slim margin of error in this league.

Two points doesn't seem like a lot, but there's only 2 points that separate the best from the worst sometimes.

To come to somebody's hometown and beat them on a split decision, that's saying something.

A very small matter, when all is said; only a fool would be concerned about it.

Your margin is my opportunity.

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.

Nothing really matters except a few things that really don't matter very much.

Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

But at [soccer] tournaments you tend to see novel, unanticipated trends coming through, with everyone watching each other like hawks and immediately copying anything new. What is really important for every team is to be aware of its own capabilities and find a style which plays to one's own strengths.

Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.

I'm loving motherhood. It's way harder than soccer, but I love a challenge.

In my arms is a woman who has given me a Skywatcher's Cloud Chart, a woman who knows all my secrets, a woman who knows just how messed up my mind is, how many pills I'm on, and yet she allows me to hold her anyway. There's something honest about all this, and I cannot imagine any other woman lying in the middle of a frozen soccer field with me - in the middle of a snowstorm even - impossibly hoping to see a single cloud break free of a nimbostratus.

We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a framing that sets each of them on equal footing, and implicitly analogies the political situation to a fist fight, a soccer match, or a domestic quarrel. So if, then, the only two intelligible political positions are "pro-Palestinian" or "pro-Israeli," the presumption is that one's position is determined by a sentiment that wants one side to win over the other.

To work hard and have our supporters behind us and believing until the end, you run a little bit more

I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.