Alan Quotes

You always have to have faith in your own abilities and that has to be evident to your players.

I did as well as I could at Newcastle.

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success. It's probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around.

It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London'.

The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.

There's no end to the stoppage of this drama

Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.

2-0 is a cricket score in Italy

The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.

Villa will probably play a lot worse than this and lose.

There isn't an injury known to man that Bryan Robson hasn't had.

It's going to take a shoehorn to prise these two teams apart

Cleland was the victim of his own downfall.

The shot from Laws was precise but wide.

Zola Budd: so small, so waif-like, you literally can't see her. But there she is

A win tonight is the minimum City must achieve

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.

One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

For who can stop the heart from breaking?

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.

I love art, I collect mostly modern art.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.

I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that with a journalist, but sometimes there is not a truth to be found.

No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart.