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Your support makes all the difference.It's something you don't find anywhere else in the world. Maybe the Romans were doing this in the arenas, but only here do we get it now. Francois Doumen, Gold Cup-winning trainer, on the Cheltenham roar.
The players were angry. They were charging up the tunnel to get back on the pitch at half- time. Alex Ferguson, Manchester United, manager on his side's reaction to Peter Schmeichel's sending-off during their FA Cup win over Charlton.
If we produce another performance like this, United needn't bother naming a replacement keeper. Ron Atkinson, manager of League Cup finalists Aston Villa, after home defeat to Ipswich.
Like a nitro-glycerine juggler. Joe Royle on life as manager of Oldham.
He's a crazy man who wants notoriety. Diego Maradona on Pietro Pugliese, his former bodyguard who has accused him of drug-dealing and match-fixing.
So many people I know see Cheltenham as an adult Christmas. We have a saying in our part, if you're not at Cheltenham, you're dead. Stuart Barnes, England stand-off.
I am so ashamed that if my wife wasn't expecting our first child any day now I might not have the heart to go home. Jesse Ferguson, knocked out in the first round by Frank Bruno at the Birmingham NEC.
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