Lads Quotations

A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

I'm not really in touch with those 'Seinfeld' lads except Jason Alexander.

Like a lot of young lads who dreamt about being a singer, I was a massive fan of Robbie Williams and couldn't believe my luck when, not only did I get to meet my idol, but sing with him, too.

One of the first things we had to learn was that our ancient cathedral town has its bounds and limits for the legions of the lads in khaki.

Nearly all of the lads are going to get medals and if they perform on the day a lot of them could be gold.

I was shocked. But I don't think morale will suffer. The lads always stick together. I don't think there will be a problem with the manager and, even if there was, the players are striving for the same goal ­ to bring the World Cup home. I don't think it will have a negative effect. It will have a positive one.

When I asked Amir if he would like to join the lads on their morning run, I swear there was a tear in his eye. He couldn't get his boots on quick enough.

If we had pulled it off it would have been the all-time Cup upset. The last thing I said to them before the game was to ruffle a few feathers and let Chelsea know they have been in a game. I think it was their intentions to keep those lads rested for Wednesday. The fact that they brought them on indicated how well we had done.

There are only 18 months remaining before we are in action in St Kitts. This is a fantastic opportunity for eight of our most likely lads to stake their claim for attention. But they will need to work hard to make the best of this unprecedented initiative.

We had chances, but when you are playing against Premiership lads you know you must take those opportunities because they will certainly punish you if you don't.

I have lads here who have played for Dunfermline or who played under Davie at Livingston and they are desperate to get through. They want this tie and they want to have a go at Dunfermline. But we are not under-estimating Huntly.

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

I feel for the lads and they are all bitterly disappointed in the dressing room.

I am disappointed at losing that late goal but we will survive in this division if we continue in that kind of form. But our lads need to believe in themselves a bit more.

But Alan was in the dugout and as a future manager one day, I think he enjoyed it. He spoke to the lads in the dressing room. If he doesn't make that, he should be fit for Saturday against Everton.

Basically I want to teach these lads to stay out of court and grow up to be decent members of the community.

I have been looking at a lot of players very closely over the last month and the time is right to give some new lads the opportunity to play at senior level.

We managed to patch up Scott McLean although he was at the toilet all night. We have only 16 players, but our lads play with passion and for each other.

He had most of those lads throwing up he was working them so hard, ... We did basic strength and fitness training for about two hours ... and then we'd start choreographing all of the fight sequences and then we'd go into the afternoon and rehearse and then go out in the evening and start drinking, which is probably why the next morning people were throwing up.

Hopefully, we can enjoy it out there and come back ready for the next game. I know it's a break and the manager thinks we need it, so we have to go. I think the lads are a bit disappointed because we just want to stay and play games. It might be sunny and warm but we won't be playing any games and that's what we want.

He's been different class ever since he came. He's slotted in perfectly. The lads get on very well with him.

Joel got half an hour and I thought he did very well, but all the lads worked very hard and we will not be too down.

Local football is facing the problem of lads not wanting to turn out, especially on Saturday afternoons. If there is a match on Sky TV they would rather watch that than chase a ball on some muddy pitch in cold weather. Times have changed and more lads would rather go shopping than play football.

I said to the lads before the game that people are saying nice things about us. We are not used to that so we have got to make sure we don't believe them. But we don't have to prove anyone wrong.

I said to the lads in the dressing room at half time, I said, there was nothing to say.

Some of the lads are unhappy that they might not be getting as much football as they want but it is a long season and everyone will get their chance.

Really racing is about the horses, not me. You can't do it without the horses, and they are the big players as are the lads who look after them, and they rarely get a mention.

Playing them means nothing to me personally but everything for our lads who, in their lives, will never have the chance again to play Manchester United.

I saw the game against England 12 months ago and thought the lads did really well for 45 minutes, but there have been many changes since then. And even from my first game in charge against Germany in February we have seen Lewis Price, David Vaughan, Richard Duffy, Joe Ledley and James Collins all move into the senior squad.

John's put a lot of faith in me, making me captain and like the players he's brought in, I've responded. He's got his own style but the lads are a lot more comfortable with him now. John and Sir Alex Ferguson are both old school, like to do the coaching, and stress what they want from individuals. And, more often than not, they get it.

I thought it was a bit unsporting by Chelsea and my lads tell me it was their manager who told them to do that.

It is an amazing feeling. It has been a roller-coaster of a summer. The lads have put a whole lot of hard work in.

It is an unfortunate way to end the season but the performances of the young lads shows there is a lot to be built on for next season.

Our pitch is top-class and the lads enjoy playing on it. I'm sure we are a better team at home although I'm not making any excuses for last Saturday's unexpected defeat at Tow Law Town which was only our third in 29 games.

I think the problems are to be worked out themselves in the dressing room. And we will do that. It's a great bunch of lads - plenty of ability in there, plenty of talent - we'll kick, scrap and fight our way out of this.

I thought our lads took their chances. Wilde looked sharp.

I thought the lads were fantastic in the second-half. At half-time I wanted to know who could scrap, and they all responded well.

I was obviously disappointed with the result but really pleased with the effort the lads put in.

I would like to give the young lads ten minutes or so on the park. Even just being involved at first-team level will give them a lift.

Most of our lads are already under contract and financially we are not under pressure now so we hope to keep the nucleus of them. I hope they enjoyed the experience. It will be a memory that lasts them the rest of their lives, but it should also stand them in good stead for the future.

We have a great bunch of lads who are hurting at the moment. They work hard together and we are now looking to put it right. We have not reached the standards we think we should do. Early season performances were not too bad but our play of late has not been what we know we can produce.

There are four games left and we still have to believe we can get into the series. We always play with pride, there is a mountain to climb but the lads want to do it and so do I.

The Denmark game hurt, but it brought the lads together and we want to prove that we can go all the way in the World Cup if we qualify. Everyone knows about Wayne Rooney. Hopefully he is going to go to another tournament and set it alight like he did in Euro 2004. He definitely could be the difference.

We were well and truly beaten last season but the lads will be determined to put the record straight tonight.

We can take a lot from that game, to play against one of the best teams in the world and we've outplayed them for 90 minutes, ... They've scored two goals in the last two minutes of extra time. We had a lot of young lads out there who played as if they had been around for a long time.

We've got four games left and we aren't going to give up the ghost. We have given ourselves a fighting chance with the way we performed in the previous three games and the lads gave everything today as well.

Wales v England is one to tell your kids about. The game everyone wants to be a part of. To play against England, to have the opportunity to beat them, is something we all dream about and I'm sure all the lads feel the same.

At the moment, they police don't come down here unless they have to - that's why the bus was set on fire - so that the police would have to respond and come down here. And when they did, some of the lads were waiting and had a crack at them.

Craig Bellamy made a meal of it. But the lads got the 3-0 win and the main thing for me was that Bellamy didn't score.

It would have been a benefit to me and the lads in some way in terms of playing in it. I hope we can play with a full deck of cards next time.

I've been waiting a long time and the fans have been getting on to me. It does bother me, in training the lads get on to me.

The team spirit has always been here, it was here under Brian as well. You can't say it wasn't here under Brian because it was. But to have Mick Byrne come back has been nice. You've seen how much all the lads like Mick and that was just my way of saying 'welcome back'.

The spirit of the lads was terrific. It was a great goal from Martin and Tomasz has been playing terrifically well recently. It was a terrific battling performance.

When you are playing with good players, it doesn't matter if they are Argentinian, German, Welsh or whatever. Good players can join in and understand their team-mates on the pitch. In most of our games, you can't hear what the other lads are saying anyway, because of the noise of the crowd. I'm sure Shunsuke will want to learn English so he can enjoy the other lads' company, but there are so many Japanese people here watching him that he isn't going to be lonely.

I've told the lads we've all got to give him ?100 - but no more than that because the school fees are due.

I've played with most of those Celtic players so I know how good they are, and our players knew what they were going in to. Now we have to shrug it off because there is no point in any of our lads coming in on Monday with their heads down.

The rugby lads won the World Cup and from then things haven't gone quite as they would have wanted since then,

Both of the lads now have the chance to show us what they can do.

Some strong words have been said in the dressing room by the manager and the lads have had to take it because it has been an embarrassment. We will put it right, that is all we can do.

No (will not be watching Soccer Saturday) that's agony. When the lads go to the monitors and say 'oh there's been a chance just gone' or if I listen to a match on the radio all you are doing is burning up nervous energy for me and I won't be in that frame of mind.

A lot of the lads have been at the Academy this winter so we have been training quite hard in indoor school, so to get outside and get a bit of Caribbean sunshine and get some competitive cricket is very exciting for everybody. So we are looking forward to it.

A lot of the lads have played football for 20 years and you just don't like losing.

They treat you really well. We have quite a lot of spare time on the circuit and quite a few of the lads like a gamble.

People are taking notice. At the start of the season, before I was here, the lads said that the main objective was to stay up. But now people are talking about getting promoted. We're not going to blow our own trumpet, we will let other people do the talking. There's no pressure on us but we are going about things the right way.

Every time we had free-kicks the lads said they had to wait for the whistle but, when Gareth Barry asked to take it quickly, he could, so there seemed to be one rule for one team and one rule for the other.

Women make such excellent scientists and engineers - because of their passion for learning and will-power to succeed. They out-perform the lads in science all the way through school, but somehow are put off engineering and science at a higher level, and that is so very sad.

Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground.

In many of the games the oldest player in the side is 21 or 23 and the lads are playing really well. We are looking for a win over Newton and I think we will certainly give them a run for their money.

I'm sure that when the lads wake up in the morning they will be kicking themselves,

I know what it's like to be bullied. During the first couple of years of high school, I got a bit of bother... Because my nose sort of slants up a little bit lads at school would call me a 'Pig' and oink at me.

I'm very pleased but I was not too worried about the result as I just wanted the lads to get back to playing football before next week's Premier cup final.

If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing for them.

I'm particularly looking forward to seeing all the people I never really had a chance to say goodbye to, ... I know a lot of the lads and they have got a lot of ability there. Unfortunately it was a bit tipped up in the air, a few of the players were sold and it has taken a little bit of time for them to adjust.

I'm focusing on getting the lads ready for Rangers.

In Supple and Lewis Price, we have two of the best young goalkeepers in the league. These lads have exceptional talent and Shane is great at crosses and has terrific quick feet.

I impressed on the lads last night at training to concentrate on the first game as Tuesday will take care of itself.

I'm getting on well with him and I'm getting on well with the team, ... They're all great lads and we seem to have a nice little group of lads here, a nice little clich, it's going well both on and off the pitch.

I knew all the lads were behind me, so then you can try everything. It was worrying that I was not scoring but I just kept working hard every day and waiting for his moment.

The lads are desperate to win. It is a mountain to climb now but they want to do it and so do I.

The lads did terrific against a top six side in the Premiership. You've got to give them great credit for coming back three times, but then when your regular penalty taker misses the first kick it's just unfortunate.

The lads have been great, they've taken ownership of the side.

The lads have done well to get this far. They have now got a real chance of winning this competition.

The lads have kidded me because in the first two games we started the way we finished last season, but the last three matches are just not acceptable as far as our defensive play is concerned,

The lads have reacted positively to the new regime and hopefully we will see positive results emerging from the sessions. We are keen to get back into action and get the disappointment of last Saturday out of our systems.

The lads know I'm watching them closely and I hope we can raise our levels against Leicester.

The lads really wanted it with Martyn playing arguably his best game for us.

The lads should know what it is all about and I am hoping they won't be as nervous as last week.

The lads showed a lot of effort and commitment but mistakes proved costly.

The lads were in tears because we had come so close again. It is hard to take after putting so much into the game.

It's very frustrating. The lads showed a lot of ambition in the first half, they went out to sustain it in the second but couldn't build on it.

I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.

I have told them let's go and make history and we have done, these lads will go down in history as the ones who have taken them back.

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

It was a frustrating afternoon for us but I'm so proud of the lads because you can easily lose a game like this four or five nil, but they kept on fighting and digging in and really tried to play.

They were three fantastic deliveries which got the first three wickets. We said to the lads just hang in there, try and make them get us out,

They are two big, strong young lads and with what they have shown to us in the short time they have been at the club I am pretty sure they will turn out to be very good buys for us.

It's an amazing feeling, ... It's been a rollercoaster of a summer. At the beginning of the tournament, it was a real distant dream. It's now become reality because the lads have put a hell of a lot of hard work in, they believed in their own ability and they've known how to express themselves.

It's an amazing feeling. It's been a rollercoaster of a summer. At the beginning of the tournament, it was a real distant dream. It's now become reality because the lads have put a hell of a lot of hard work in, they believed in their own ability and they've known how to express themselves.

It was a great chance for the lads to start getting to know each other,