Skip to content

Portrait of Bryan Robson

Bryan Robson

(1957) Association Football Player

25 quotes in 230 categories

Bryan Robson is an association football player, best known for Robbo.

Quick Facts About Bryan Robson

Born: January 11, 1957
Profession: Association Football Player
Notable works: Robbo

About Bryan Robson

Bryan Robson is an English former football manager and player. He began his career with West Bromwich Albion in 1972, where he amassed over 200 appearances and was club captain, before moving to Manchester United in 1981, where he became the longest-serving captain in the club's history. He won two Premier Leagues, three FA Cups, one Football League Cup, two FA Charity Shields and a European Cup Winners' Cup during his time there. Nicknamed "Captain Marvel", Robson was voted the greatest ever Manchester United player in August 2011 in a poll of the club's former players.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Bryan Robson

When you beat Arsenal, they are a good three points.

Arsenal

Image

The first time I saw Giggsy, he was playing for Salford Boys against United's apprentices. He was thin and wiry but he…

Absolutes

Image

We're going to start the game at nil-nil and go out and try to get some goals.

Games

Image

In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper…

Certain

Image

All the stuff about being a drinking club, or having players who were not good enough, I treat as rubbish.

Drinking

Image

I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years.…

Been

Image

If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.

Football

Image

And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done

Done

Image

You can't let players do what they wish and be professional. That's a fact. As for the team, Boro had two internationals…

Cost

Image

I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them…

Actually

Image

It wasn't going to be our day on the night.

Inspirational

Image

Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.

Accepted

Image

Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully…

Balls

Image

This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that

Bigger

Image

Paolo di Canio is capable of scoring the goal he scored.

Capable

Image

I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season,…

Arrangement

Image

In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the…

Best intentions

Image

As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of the matter. We have a big game against Birmingham on Saturday and…

Bigs

Image

Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.

Around

Image

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I…

Bandwagon

Image

We've got to be outstanding when we start and let other people chase against us.

Outstanding

Image

That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or…

Accept

Image

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I…

Board

Image

Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to…

Always

Image

If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team,…

Able

Image

Bryan Robson by topic

Had (8)