I was a little bit shocked at quite how football was more like the wild west. — Mike Ashley Copy Share Image
I wanted to help Newcastle, I wanted to make it better. I do not seem to have had that effect. — Mike Ashley Copy Share Image
I don't care what people say, it's very difficult to keep a player when they want to go. The age of slavery… — Mike Ashley Copy Share Image
The school I went to was only famous for one thing... Peter Osgood went to that particular school. That's probably my earliest… — Mike Ashley Copy Share Image
I am hopeful for the Newcastle fans, for the club, for everybody that I will be able to step aside and we… — Mike Ashley Copy Share Image
Do I regret getting into football? The answer is yes. I have had tonnes of fun in it but I haven't been… — Mike Ashley Copy Share Image
I am wedded to Newcastle like Sports Direct. They've got me and I've got them. That's just the way it is. — Mike Ashley Copy Share Image
It's one of the amazing things about owning a football club, the way you get caught up. It's like someone has put… — Mike Ashley Copy Share Image
Alan Shearer came in at a time when he was one of the only people on this planet who could have kept… — Mike Ashley Copy Share Image
Kevin Keegan is an outstanding individual and also did his best. It wasn't always easy for Kevin at the football club. We… — Mike Ashley Copy Share Image
It is very boring and lonely in Shirebrook. You know what we do after work? We go to the pub after work. — Mike Ashley Copy Share
I don't care what people say, it's very difficult to keep a player when they want to go. The age of slavery is dead. — Mike Ashley Copy Share
Despite significant challenges within the retail sector in the UK and beyond, which have resulted in many retailers failing, Sports Direct has continued to… — Mike Ashley Copy Share
I'm not sitting in my office stroking a white cat... I find it very frustrating: what benefit have I got of closing stores? — Mike Ashley Copy Share
I'm not a clicks man, I wasn't born in the clicks era. I'm a bricks man, I believe in bricks. — Mike Ashley Copy Share
People will say 'how can you have a plane when your workers are on minimum wage?' I said 'but I don't set the minimum… — Mike Ashley Copy Share
Kevin Keegan is an outstanding individual and also did his best. It wasn't always easy for Kevin at the football club. We didn't have… — Mike Ashley Copy Share
I am wedded to Newcastle like Sports Direct. They've got me and I've got them. That's just the way it is. — Mike Ashley Copy Share
“If rules make a framework for the mind to climb about in, why should the mind not climb right out?” — Mike Ashley Copy Share
We think the biggest and most important thing House of Fraser is missing is luxury brands. — Mike Ashley Copy Share
