Spurs Quotes

Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.

Every week Rangers have different former players come out at half-time. Spurs should have a couple a former players on the board, who know what the supporters want.

My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.

Spurs are up against one of the top coaches in the world if not one of the best in the world

Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

It's no use just winning, we've got to win well.

If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best.

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.

My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

Running with the bulls was one of my crazier judgments in life and one of those things I decided to do spur of the moment. It was pretty hilarious.

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.

To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.

If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Actions speak louder than words, but words spur actions.

In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

Our new election system will spur on all institutions and organizations and will force them to improve their work.

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.

Spurs fans are feeling very boyish about the future

Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time.

The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game.

What do I like about Spurs? The flairness

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.

Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]

What spurs a person to get more serious is highly individual, but I have found that no matter what a person's level of ability, motivation must come from within, or it will not last.

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action.