88 Quotes by Craig Brown

Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk of wake-up calls tend to have an easy-going way with words.

When cars honk and hoot and drunks squeeze out of car windows and scream, you can be sure that football is in the air.

To do anything in a downtown area in 10 months, it's only done by everyone having a shared vision. It has been a team effort.

Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better carers, better leaders, and so on and so forth.

Tweeting is the go-to medium for the show-off and the shyster.

(The season) was up and down but we really came together in the last five or six games and the girls are extra motivated for next year now,

Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.

Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in motion from the moment it leaves the tee to the moment it plops into the hole, thus obliging each player to run along after his ball and give it another whack before it stops rolling.

The British love of queuing and discomfort and being bossed around seems to have found a new outlet in the pop festival.