P.J. Gordon Quotes

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.

I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.

I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea.

The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.

Everybody at Barcelona loves Messi. They can't speak highly of him.

Arsene Wenger was talking about comparisons with Johan Cruyff, a player who only comes around every 10 years and Thierry Henry is definitely one of those

I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.

I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.

People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'.

Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.

Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release.

Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game.

I know so many players who say they wouldnt entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching badges. I suspect this might happen with David Beckham.

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

I didn't want to be anyone else.

Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit.

I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand.

Anybody who doesn't think that Hong Kong has to depend on the PRC (China) must be the biggest idiot on earth because you are talking about getting access to a 1.3 billion people market.

Somethin' like four thousand bottles have been thrown at me in my day but only about twenty ever hit me. That does not speak very well for the accuracy of the fans' throwing.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

The novel remains a very special form for me.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group

As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion.

I went to glam shows and was inspired by Bowie.

I'm not a rock star, I'm a rock bright-light.

I always dressed funny or weird, if you want to call it that. It was always part of who I am and I dressed in my freakish way a long time before we ever thought about founding Orgy.

I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.

In California, especially Northern California, the fans really cheer for me.

I don't feel like I've really changed. Maybe I have let people see more of me than in the past.

I want to race as long as I'm having fun, it's competitive and healthy, and who knows when that, you know, date comes when that's not happening anymore.

I definitely get pumped up when I hear a crowd cheering for me.

You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

I had to kiss Ruthie Henshall once with a cold. It was the final romantic moment in She Loves Me; as we separated, I noticed this arc of glistening mucus threaded between us.

It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.