Eamon Quotes

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

It is my considered opinion that in the fullness of time history will record the greatness of Michael Collins and it will be recorded at my expense.

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.

They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on

Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.

Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

Found out. A nothing player.

You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.

If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.

Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.

And I been waitin' all my life And I been havin' big dreams times twice

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict.

Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.

Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings.

We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer.

Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.

Michel Platini has no bottle. He is not a great player.

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.

I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby.

He's one of the biggest whingers in world football... he's a bloody eejit.

Ability and guts is an unbeatable combination.

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new.

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player

After watching Watford against Manchester City last night that was like a bubblebath. It was beautiful.

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology.

Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.

When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!

For the plain people of Ireland... If your car's got a puncture, and you know its got a puncture and its still got a puncture after two weeks, then you don't know how how to change a tyre.

I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.