Able Quote by John Motson Download Open image “Ruud Gullit was able to impose his multi-lingual skills on this match.” — John Motson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Football Inspirational Skills
In Dortmund we had many players from abroad and when you want to put your thoughts in their heads, for example with Pierre-Emerick, you… — Daniel Farke Copy Share Image
Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Throughout their career, the likes of Xavi and Andres Iniesta have all been taught to a play a certain way. English players have been… — Jack Rodwell Copy Share Image
As long as you are successful and winning matches, the language is no problem at all. But when the results are insufficient, the difficulties… — Ottmar Hitzfeld Copy Share Image
Every Hispanic player goes through that. It's a lot of hard work, to be able to communicate with your teammates. English is fundamental to… — Carlos Ruiz Copy Share Image
Great keepers and centre-backs were what the English were brought up on. — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish — Gareth Barry Copy Share Image
Brazil - they're so good it's like they are running round the pitch playing with themselves. — John Motson Copy Share Image
I do remember once going to Salzburg in Austria. Liverpool were playing a European game there, and they put me in a box behind… — John Motson Copy Share Image
In a sense it's a one-man show... except there are two men involved, Hartson and Berkovic, and a third man, the goalkeeper. — John Motson Copy Share Image
I just thought my 50th year in the BBC is 2018, and it has to end sometime, and I thought that would be a… — John Motson Copy Share Image
It is now a pleasure to go to any of the Premier League grounds. They are so welcoming, not just to me but to… — John Motson Copy Share Image
I'm not a celebrity whose face is recognised everywhere I go, like Gary Lineker, but my voice does make people sit up and pay… — John Motson Copy Share Image
I have had a wonderful time. I don't think things could have gone any better for me because I was football-mad as a boy,… — John Motson Copy Share Image
Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here. — John Motson Copy Share Image
The whole London football scene is now financially more powerful and ambitious than ever before. That reflects the city's economic might and its multiculturalism.… — John Motson Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
