Tottenham Hotspur Quotes

#1. Tottenham Hotspur has a huge following across the world and I have great admiration for the passion the fans show for this team. We are determined to give the supporters the kind of attacking football and success that we are all looking to achieve. #Quote by Mauricio Pochettino

#2. The most starstruck I've been is when I met Sol Campbell when he was a Tottenham Hotspur player. I don't get starstruck by actors I work with, because you have some sort of relationship with them. Like, I worked with Tom Cruise [on Interview With The Vampire], so if I saw him again I'd speak to him as an actor. Although he might not be interested in talking to me ... #Quote by Roger Lloyd-Pack

#3. Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody. #Quote by Brian Clough

#4. It's been my life, Tottenham Hotspur,
and I love the club. #Quote by Bill Nichols

#5. The only way Marc Bircham will be going to Tottenham is if he buys a f****** season ticket. #Quote by Terry Venables

#6. And what have I learned
from all these affairs of the heart?
One thing only, and that
what I knew to begin with:
that I have no business being in one at all. #Quote by John Tottenham

#7. They were setting off on an adventure, and Hornblower was only too conscious that it was his own fault. #Quote by C.S. Forester

#8. RIVETING TORPOR
It is remarkable how far I am prepared to go
In order to avoid doing the one thing that might
Provide satisfaction, and it is remarkable to consider
What I will do instead of it, purely for the pleasure
Of being dissatisfied. When it is merely a matter
Of sitting down for a few hours and dreaming
That something of value might eventually arise
From this routine of self-enforced boredom. #Quote by John Tottenham

#9. And Tottenham shan't be able to to resist me in this dress. No man could."
"Olivia!" the marchioness said from her place. "That is entirely unladylike."
"Why? That is the goal, is it not? To tempt one's husband?"
"One does not tempt one's husband!" the marchioness insisted.
Olivia's smile turned mischievous. "You must have tempted yours once or twice, Mother."
"Oh!" Lady Needham collapsed back against the settee.
Madame Hebert turned away from the conversation, waving two girls over to work on Pippa's hem.
Olivia winked at Pippa. "Five times, at least."
Pippa could not resist. "Four. Victoria and Valerie are twins."
"Enough! I can't abide it!" The marchioness was up and through the curtains to the front of the shop, leaving her daughters to their laughter. #Quote by Sarah MacLean

#10. Oh, yeah. Well, it's just a bad habit we've slipped into," said Harry. "But I haven't got a problem calling him V - " "NO!" roared Ron, causing Harry to jump into the hedge and Hermione (nose buried in a book at the tent entrance) to scowl over at them. "Sorry," said Ron, wrenching Harry back out of the brambles, "but the name's been jinxed, Harry, that's how they track people! Using his name breaks protective enchantments, it causes some kind of magical disturbance - it's how they found us in Tottenham Court Road! #Quote by J.K. Rowling

#11. Billy ran around with a rare old crew
And he knew an Arsenal from Tottenham blue
We'd be a darn sight better off if we knew
Where Billy's bones are resting now

Billy saw a copper and he hit him in the knee
And he took him down from six to five foot three
Then he hit him fair and square in the do-re-mi
That copper won't be having any family

Hey Billy son where are you now?
Don't you know that we need you now?
With a rat-tat-tat and the old kowtow
Where are Billy's bones resting now?

Billy went away with a peace-keeping force
'Cause he liked a bloody good fight, of course
Went away in an old khaki van
To the banks of the River Jordan

Billy saw the Arabs and he had 'em on the run
When he got 'em in the range of his sub-machine gun
Then he had the Israelis in his sights, went a rat-tat-tat
And they ran like shites

Hey Billy son where are you now?
Don't you know that we need you now?
With a rat-tat-tat and the old kowtow
Where are Billy's bones resting now?

One night Billy had a rare old time,
Laughing and singing on the Lebanon line
Came back to camp not looking too pretty
Never even got to see the holy city

Now Billy's out there in the desert sun
And his mother cries when the morning comes
And there's mothers crying all over this world
For their poor dead darling boys and girls
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#12. In London, the home of the quick deal is that outer ring of the seven circles of hell, Tottenham Court Road, where, as a rule, finding something with an advertised price is as likely as spotting a mermaid under Vauxhall Bridge. #Quote by David Hewson

#13. Tottenham tried to sign me but I held off and came to Arsenal because Arsene Wenger was here. #Quote by Emmanuel Petit

#14. 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 #Quote by Jimmy Greaves

#15. You revolutionists' the other continued, with leisurely self-confidence, 'are the slaves of the social convention, which is afraid of you; slaves of it as much as the very police that stands up in the defence of that convention. Clearly you are, since you want to revolutionize it. It governs your action, too, and thus neither your thought nor your action can ever be conclusive. (...) 'You are not a bit better than the forces arrayed against you -- than the police, for instance. The other day I came suddenly upon Chief Inspector Heat at the corner of Tottenham Court Road. He looked at me very steadily. But I did not look at him. Why should I give him more than a glance ? He was thinking of many things -- of his superiors, of his reputation, of the law courts, of his salary, of newspapers -- of a hundred things. But I was thinking of my perfect detonator only. He meant nothing to me. He was as insignificant as -- I can't call to mind anything insignificant enough to compare him with -- except Karl Yundt perhaps. Like to like. The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolutions, legality -- counter moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical. He plays his little game -- so do you propagandists. #Quote by Joseph Conrad

#16. 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. #Quote by Mike Ingham

#17. IMPROVIDENCE
The other lives I might have led
All now might as well be
Dead. Survived by no one.
Barren, without issue of any sort:
This withered bud, failed
In art and love. With no time left
To change my course. But time enough
for infinite remorse. #Quote by John Tottenham

#18. Tottenham, and I hope the English fans will forgive me, are a club in mid-table and I need more. #Quote by Samuel Eto'o

#19. Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy business #Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle

#20. Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league. #Quote by Brendan Rodgers

#21. I always assume that people I admire are single. #Quote by John Tottenham

#22. Life Without Work
To do nothing
In this day and age,
When so much pointless work
Is being produced,
Could almost be considered an achievement.
It all compares most unfavorably
With my own imaginary
Body of work. #Quote by John Tottenham

#23. Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. #Quote by Nick Hornby

#24. Patronage of Negation
I am constantly confronted by other people's works
That I could have created myself.
And I am constantly disappointed by them.
Sadly, I have to recognize them
For what they are: inferior versions
Of what I could have done
If I'd been insecure enough in my abilities
To do anything. #Quote by John Tottenham

#25. If you support Tottenham you always give more love than you get back... Tottenham is the worst kind of bad team, because they're almost good. They always promise that they're going to be fantastic. They make you hope. So you go on loving them and they carry on finding more and more innovative ways of disappointing you #Quote by Fredrik Backman

#26. It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be. #Quote by Alan Hansen

#27. Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal?
Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away #Quote by Arsene Wenger

#28. Everything's falling apart according to plan. #Quote by John Tottenham

#29. Whenever I'm in a relationship I feel as if I'm being unfaithful to myself. #Quote by John Tottenham

#30. …'I haven't seen you before.' His voice was velvet soft, lazy with provocation. But his gaze wasn't lazy; it was predatory, like an animal on the scent. 'My father and I are down from Scotland' Zelda replied, half breathless under the unmistakable lust in his eyes, the warmth of his hand still tingling on her skin; her heart suddenly pounding. Their eyes held for a moment-pale blue and amethyst-and a flurry of ripe unguarded expectation shimmered in the air. Hotspur and graphic. Alec recovered first because he wasn't given to blind impetuosity. #Quote by Susan Johnson

#31. I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go. #Quote by Alan Hansen

#32. My Sadness is Deeper than Yours

My sadness is deeper than yours. My interior life is richer than yours. I am more interesting than you. I don't care about anybody else's problems. They are not as serious as mine. Nobody knows the weight I carry, the trouble I've seen. There are worlds in my head that nobody has access to: fortunately for them, fortunately for me. I have seen things that you will never see, and I have feelings that you are incapable of feeling, that you would never allow yourself to feel, because you lack the capacity and the curiosity. Once you felt the hint of such a feeling, you would stamp it out. I am a martyr to futility and I don't expect to be shut down by a pretender. Mothballs are an aphrodisiac to me, beauty depresses me. You could never hope to fathom the depth of my feelings, deeper than death. I look down upon you all from my lofty height of lowliness. The fullness of your satisfaction lacks the cadaverous purity of my pain. Don't talk to me about failure. You don't know the meaning of the word. When it comes to failure, you're strictly an amateur. Bush league stuff. I'm ten times the failure you'll ever be. I have more to complain about than you, and regrets: more than a few, too many to mention. I am a fully-qualified failure, I have proven it over and over again. My credentials are impeccable, my resume flawless. I have worked hard to put myself in a position of unassailable wretchedness, and I demand to be respected for it. I expec #Quote by John Tottenham

#33. Houston is my team, always and forever. But with the new TV packages, it's so easy to watch every league in the world, and my overseas fandom is driven by the American guys. If Sunderland's on TV, I'll watch Jozy Altidore. I try to watch Geoff Cameron at Stoke. When Clint Dempsey was at Tottenham, I watched a lot of his games. #Quote by Andrew Luck

#34. I didn't get paid for my first gig supporting Usher Raymond in the Temple in Tottenham when I was 17 or 18. I bugged the promoter to let me play and it went down a storm. And after that I got loads of gigs, which were paid. #Quote by Lemar

#35. Clint Dempsey scored a last-minute winner to earn Tottenham a 1-1 draw against United. #Quote by Alan Brazil

#36. SONG OF DAWN
I saw the sun rise by accident.
It was a horrible sight.
Annoyed by its splendor, I sought refuge
in a moist pillow, and lay there, alone,
at the dawn of another day,
that brought me closer to another death,
pondering the vanity of my solitude,
the vanity of procrastination,
and the tiresome inevitability of waking up
again the same person.
It might still be possible to change,
but obstinately I remain the same,
hoping that others might take solace
in my consistency.
But perhaps they take no solace in it,
perhaps they too find it tedious. #Quote by John Tottenham

#37. I had a feeling once. I wonder what happened to it. #Quote by John Tottenham

#38. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work. #Quote by William Shakespeare

#39. Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one kind with an other kind. Friendship buys friendship; justice, justice; military merit, military success...Yet there is commonly a confusion of expectations on these points. Hotspur lives for the moment, praises himself for it, and despises Furlong, that he does not. Hotspur of course is poor, and Furlong is a good provider. The odd circumstance is that Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands. #Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

#40. There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham. #Quote by David Pleat

#41. I feel as if I don't have time
To do anything. So I do nothing
Other than remind myself
Of what I should be doing,
And admonish myself for not doing it.
I tell myself to be patient.
But I don't have time for patience anymore.
I don't have time for time. #Quote by John Tottenham