20 Quotes by Jimmy Greaves

Since I stopped playing, people have been comparing strikers with me. If anyone wants to say it about Michael Owen, however, they are quite welcome.

Ian St. John: Is he speaking to you yet?Greaves: Not yet, but I hope to be incommunicado with him in a very short space of time.

Jimmy's death devastated my wife, Irene, and myself. It nearly drove us out of our minds,

We signed to play until the day we died, and we did.

As parents, you expect your children to outlive you and when that doesn't happen, you become an empty shell. Jimmy was a beautiful boy and his time on this earth was all too brief. It kind of puts losing my World Cup winner's medal to Geoff into perspective, doesn't it? But you don't go through life without having some really bad times, and I've had some great times, too.

The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

He hit the post, and after the game people will say, well, he hit the post.

I think Charlie George was one of Arsenal's all time great players. A lot of people might not agree with that, but I personally do

Portsmouth are at Huddersfield, which is always away