20 Quotes by Jimmy Greaves

The only thing Norwich didn't get was the goal that they finally got

Britain never had a greater sporting ambassador.

Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.

We are really the victims of our own problems

Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with the gold gun emblem sewn into their pockets and grey slacks. We couldn’t match their ground with that beautiful main entrance, marble halls and spiral staircase. Even in 1961 when we won the Double, we were never as big a club as Arsenal.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

The biggest regret of my whole football career was leaving White Hart Lane in 1970.....my interest in football weakened after that. I was heartbroken

We are really the victims of our own problems.

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.