31 Quotes by Jock Stein

It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don't want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends.

There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.

Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love.

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.

If you're good enough, the referee doesn't matter.

Football is for the fans. It can be the greatest game in the world but if there are no people to watch it, it becomes nothing. The fans are the lifeblood of the game.

I think it is important to win a match, but I think what is even more important is the manner in which you win.