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| White Hart | "I fell in love with this club and it still my favourite. I was made very welcome there by everyone and the fans were always marvellous. There is always a place in my heart for Tottingham Hotspurs." - Ossie Ardilles 2000. | | |
| White Hart | When Gazza came to the Spurs training ground for the first time ge got the ball, went round 8 players as if they were not there and then smashed the ball into the net. Just to see him play like that made the hair stand up on the back of your neck. Everybody stood there and applauded him." - Terry Venables, 1994. | | |
| White Hart | "Wimbledon with fans." - Jimmy Greaves on the mediocrity of Gerry Francis's side, 1996. | | |
| White Hart | "The day I got married, Teddy Sheringham asked for a transfer. I spent my honeymoon in a hotel room with a fax machine trying to sign a replacement." - Gerry Francis, 1997. | | |
| White Hart | "Darren Anderton has had so many x-rays that he got radiation sickness." - Sir Alan Sugar. | | |
| White Hart | "The trouble with Christian Gross is that no-one had heard of him. The communication wasn't brilliant and as captain I decided to explain to him how things worked and what the players liked and were used to. I do not believe he listened to a word I said." - Gary Mabbutt, 1999. | | |
| White Hart | "We like a tackle at Tottenham. we're not pansies, you know. " - David Pleat, 1998. | | |
| White Hart | "Man in the raincoat's blue & white army." - Spurs fans unable to use George Graham's name, 1999. | | |
| White Hart | "I know more about smalz herring than I do about football." - Sir Alan Sugar, 1991. | | |
| White Hart | "I thought I had seen it all when it comes to the fickleness of football folk. then I heard Spurs fans signing, 'there's only one Alan Sugar.' " - Mick McCarthy, then Millwall manager, 1994. | | |
| White Hart | "The freat fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It's nothing of the kind. The game is about glory. It's about doing things in style, with a flourish, about going out and beating the other lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom." - Danny Blanchflower, 1972. | | |
| White Hart | "Even now, when I go over to my mother'S house and dig out the old tracksuit tops I wore, it makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. I like to think i am part of a special family. I am no longer connected with the club on a daily basis, but i'm delighted with every win and sad about every defeat." - Steve Perryman 2001. | | |
| White Hart | "The biggest regret of my whole football career was leaving White Hart Lane in 1970.....my interest in football weakened after that. I was heartbroken" - Jimmy Greaves. | | |
| White Hart | "White Hart Lane is a great place. The only thing wrong is the seats face the pitch." - Les Dawson, 1991. | | |
| White Hart | "For those of you watching in black & white, spurs are in the yellow strip." - John Motson | | |
| White Hart | "Always had a bit of time, makee a little bit of space, look up, bang. And you know he could put it on a postage stamp from 40 yards. Mmm...." - Ron Manager aka Paul Whitehouse, Spurs fan on Glenn Hoddle, 2001. | | |
| White Hart | "Our central defnders, Doherty and Anthony Gardner, were fantastic and I told them that when they go to bed tonight they should think of each other." - David Pleat. | | |
| White Hart | "Bill Nick always wanted us to win with style and entertain the fans. If we won a game and had played badly, he was disappointed." - Cliff Jones, 2001. | | |
| White Hart | "I've had so many cards it feels like Christmas." - Edgar Davids on his flurry of Yellows, 2005. | | |
| White Hart | "The club call us hooligans, but who'd cheer them if we didn't come? You have to stand there and take it when Spurs are losing and others are jeering at you. It's not easy. We support them everywhere and get no thanks." - Tottenham fan, quoted in the Glory Game, 1972. | | |
| White Hart | Interviewer: "Which do you prefer, Rangers or Celtic?"Alfie Conn: " Spurs. " - 'It's Only A Game', tv show, 1986. Conn played for all 3 clubs. | | |
| White Hart | "When you've finished playing football, young man, which is going to be very soon, I feel, you'll make a very good security guard." - David Pleat to a 17yr old Neil Ruddock, 1986. | | |
| White Hart | "We will not be pushed around by a bunch of north London yobbos." - Rupert Lowe, Southampton chairman, shortly before his manager Glenn Hoddle left for Spurs. | | |
| White Hart | "If someone wants to give you a bum steer on who we're after, then so be it. If you want to know, ask me, because I have a list of players we want and Robbie Keane isn't on it." - Glenn Hoddle, then Spurs manager, shortly before paying 17 mill for ... Robbie Keane. | | |
| White Hart | "If Alan Sugar thinks he can just walk in and take West Bromwich Albion's manager, I'll be down that motorway like an Exocet to blow up his bloody computers." - Trevor Summers, Baggies Chairman, shortly before Ossie Ardiles left and came back to Spurs. | | |
| White Hart | "Short of Margaret Thatcher joining New Labour, it is difficult to imagine a more stunning move than (George) Graham going to Spurs." - David Mellor, 1998. | | |
| White Hart | "He's a coward who will not stand up and admit his mistakes. I got mugged into believing that this Adonis of the football world was the be-all and end-all in management, skill and tactics. In my time at Tottenham I made lots of mistakes. The biggest was possibly employing him." - Sir Alan Sugar on George Graham, 2001. | | |
| White Hart | "I'm a miserable sod." - Sir Alan Sugar, 1992. | | |
| White Hart | "If I fail, I'll stand up and be counted - let some other brain surgeon take over." - Sir Alan Sugar, 1996. | | |
| White Hart | "I have found Alan Sugar to be one of the least charming people I have ever met." - Peter Hill-Wood, *rsenal chairman, 1997. | | |
| White Hart | "Ah well, ma'am, you see we all know each other!" (Danny Blanchflower to Dutchess of Kent at the 1961 Cup Final. The Dutchess asked why the Leicester City players had names on their tracksuits and the Spurs team didn't.) | | |
| White Hart | "As a boy I was always a Tottenham fan..!" (Arsenal star Dennis Bergkamp) | | |
| White Hart | "We've got a good side here, we WILL win the double this season..!"(Danny Blanchflower - 1960) | | |
