Football is a game in which a handful of men run around for one and a half hours watched by millions of people who could really use the exercise.
At the end of the day, football means not having to go to Sainsburys on Saturday.
"If you are first, you are first. If you are second, you are nothing." The winning philosophy.
"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."
"Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple."
''Play the 12th man - Open the Eastend''
"I'm just one of the people who stands on the Kop. They think the same as I do, and I think the same as they do. It's a kind of marriage of people who like each other." Relationship with the fans.
"It's there to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against." On his famous 'This is Anfield' sign in the players' tunnel.
"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game."
Did he really say that? Gary johnson quotes
If Fontaine scores I'll bare my behind in Burtons window
I am a Championship Manager, but you can't treat it like the computer game, Championship Manager
Keith does all the work on the computer stuff.....it is still a chalkboard for me. It is Milly that does it because I haven't got a clue. I just know the on and off button, and even then I can't find that sometimes
About Trundle signing: "I don't normally speak to people over 30, let alone sign them!"
''COSMIC''
The City manager refused to call the game must win........"If we win on Saturday then we've had a good start, if we lose then its a bad start"
"Neil Warnocks got a big nose from all those lies he tells!"
Interviewer: "Why do you say Crystal Palace are favourites?"
GJ: "Because it annoys Neil."
''Johnson said stay till the end''
Asked about Basso pen save!
"I think he has some help from upstairs! And i don't mean our chairman!"
"We haven't beaten Sheffield United since about 1773 and the Chairman keeps reminding me of it...he should know, he was there!"
GJ about Clough and Forest.
"I was there as a young lad. Brian Clough only
spoke once to me. He said "I'm getting rid of you".
It was a real eye-opener.
"I'll just go home and kick the cat. Oh, by the way, the cat's name is 'referee'!"
"I am very pleased with the East End and I would publicly like to thank you".
Gary Johnson
"There was also the attitude that whatever happened, the crowd were going to get behind the team and give them every bit of support they possibly could. Amazingly this turned almost into a carnival atmosphere at times helped by those in the East End who I congratulate on their contribution on the day". Steve Lansdown
"The lads there have got something".
Gary Johnson on the Eastend
