Graeme Souness Quotes

Sometimes when I watch a game, there are often more wide receivers on the field than we had on our whole team.

Cricket takes so long. There's a lot of airtime to fill. Guys have to talk about someone's technique for half an hour.

A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.

Football is wonderful because everyone can have an opinion and make judgements about what they think and see.

I've had a great time making the transition from playing to talking about the game, and there is no better place to talk football than NFL Network.

I knew becoming an analyst would allow me to see the game from a new perspective.

Football is made up of episodes.

I love being on Sky Sports, the big hype around the games and stuff like that.

I've learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can't see from a camera angle, or the booth.

You watch guys talk about football, and you think that maybe it's really easy, and it's really not. Yeah, we've got the expertise because we played, but how you put that into a 30-, 45-second take and educate and entertain someone that's watching?

I can't believe so much media attention is being paid to Fernando Torres and his loss of form, when the answer is staring us all in the face. It's his hair. His moping and ineffectual performances began just in time for the World Cup, which took place just after he substituted his dodgy blonde locks for a more serious brunette do

In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper.

It's very important for us because we are viewers, first and foremost. We view more than we make. For us, it's important that the viewing experience is fun and thrilling and exciting and fresh and different. Those are our goals when we are writing something. When you watch it in the theatre, which I hope you will, how will you have the best experience possible? That's really important to us, and is the most thrilling.

It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.

Yeah I got game like Stuart Scott...fresh out the ESPN shop

He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football

I told our guys they must not have cable because Antoine Walker knows how to play, Derek Anderson can play, Shandon Anderson knows how to play, and Gary Payton knows how play.

Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

If we consider my latest book, Strategie de la deception, what we need to focus on are the other aspects of the same phenomenon.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it.

I don't mind talking about the game. I don't mind talking about what we go through as players, because I want people to get a deeper look inside instead of looking at stats all the time or looking at numbers or just watching the game. I want them to get a pulse on us as players, and a lot of players might not want that, but that's what I want.

If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

I'm not sure sports writing is an art.