53 Quotes by Mike Ashley

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    It's one of the amazing things about owning a football club, the way you get caught up. It's like someone has put something in your coffee. You look around, you want to lift the place, hit the ground running.

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    I don't care what people say, it's very difficult to keep a player when they want to go. The age of slavery is dead.

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    The school I went to was only famous for one thing... Peter Osgood went to that particular school. That's probably my earliest memory of the importance of football.

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    I was a little bit shocked at quite how football was more like the wild west.

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    Criticism is a funny thing, because I think if you want to be something, create something or make a difference in any walk of life you have to be hugely self-critical.

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    Do I regret getting into football? The answer is yes. I have had tonnes of fun in it but I haven't been able to make the difference I wanted to like I have at Sports Direct.

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    I am wedded to Newcastle like Sports Direct. They've got me and I've got them. That's just the way it is.

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    I wanted to help Newcastle, I wanted to make it better. I do not seem to have had that effect.

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