Craig Johnston Quotes

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• I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back,…
• The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.
• OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes.…
• I've been ignored for 20 years but now it's heartening to get some recognition.
• Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.
• It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates.…
• We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.
• So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five…
• And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I…
• You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball,…
• Our football program is bigger than any one person.
• So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

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