He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for…

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot,…

— Adam Oates

I'm not one of those guys who has to drop ten pounds in the week before a contest.

— Dorian Yates

Guys like me can put on 10-15 pounds in a week.

— Ryan Leaf

I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for…

— Tim Yeo

When I started work as an economist at the Bank of England, just six of my graduate intake of 37 were women.

— Rachel Reeves

We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an…

— John Redwood

“In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694, a consortium…

— David Graeber

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

— Robert Maxwell

An overview of all wars since the establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 suggests that most of them would have been greatly…

— G. Edward Griffin

Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents.…

— Vince Cable

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk…

— John Maynard Keynes

According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.

— Harry Enfield

“Whenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England.”

— G.K. Chesterton

How is it having more control if we have a recession as the Bank of England and IFS say?

— Sadiq Khan

When I worked at the Bank of England, I learnt a very simple lesson: your sums must always add up.

— Rachel Reeves