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Quotes from Mr TottenhamThe book contains many entertaining tributes and quotes from ex-players who played under Bill Nick at White Hart Lane, and others whose lives were also effected by the Great Man. Here are just a few to whet your appetite... Bill Nicholson was a tough guy. He was a perfectionist and very fastidious in everything he did. He was the one who pushed me and he really knew his stuff. Even when Jimmy Anderson was manager, Bill was the one who really controlled the team. - Eddie Clayton Bill's knowledge of the game seemed boundless. It made an instant impression on me, because here was a man who knew his football, and who was a great thinker about how the game should be played. - Dave Mackay With Bill in charge of the club everything ran like clockwork. - Terry Medwin Nobody worked harder or put in more hours and he'd even have a day when he went round with Len Warren, the maintenance clerk. The saying was: 'If a lightbulb needed changing in a toilet, Bill knew about it'. - Cliff Jones The training at Spurs was a world away from what I'd been used to at Stamford Bridge. - Les Allen I often wonder whether, with a little more praise for small achievements, and perhaps a little less criticism, that Bill could have got a bit more out of some of us for a bit longer, but we'll never know, because Bill was Bill and if you had changed the man, you may have changed whatever it was that made him tick. - Terry Dyson Bill would often take them to one side and let them know what they were doing wrong, but he'd make sure it was out of earshot of others. There was more to Bill than many people gave him credit for - Terry Medwin I went into a slide tackle with Eddie Kelly...I went in making sure that I not only got the ball but a fair old slice of the player as well. Eddie and I both ended up by the side of the pitch, and as I got up to run back on, somebody stopped me. It was Bill. He said to me: 'Son, if you want to carry on wearing that shirt, I don't ever want to see you do anything like that again'. - John Pratt That was it - it didn't matter if a car ran over me after that, because my ambition had been fulfilled. I had not only signed for a big club, but also for Bill Nicholson. - Terry Naylor He wasn't an ogre. You hear of managers imposing curfews and the like, but Bill knew we were grown men and he treated us that way. He would allow us to go out and have a good time - and there were quite a few at the club who knew how to do that, all right - but come the next morning, God help anybody who wasn't up for it. - Ralph Coates Jimmy Pearce and I were sitting together one day, when Bill looks at Jimmy and says: 'If you had Pratty's heart and he had your skill, I'd have two bloody world-beaters on my hands'. - John Pratt I had been getting it in the neck a bit from some of the sections of the crowd at Spurs but Bill expected his players to be men, and he said that the crowd paid our wages and were entitled to have their opinions. So one day, before I was due to play my first game at Old Trafford, I asked him what I could expect. He replied that it would just be like playing at Spurs, except that up there 55,000 people would hate me, whereas at Spurs it was only 45,000!' - John Pratt I am proud to follow in his footsteps but also know that I have such a hard act to follow. Bill set such high standards that his work can never be eclipsed, and nor should it be, but it is up to his successors to try because that is what Bill Nicholson would have wanted. I know there will only ever be one Bill Nick - Martin Jol Bill did so much for his beloved Spurs that we must never let his legacy fade. He must be our inspiration as we strive to ensure that a new era dawns here at White Hart Lane. - Daniel Levy Quote from Bill Nicholson:"Any player coming to Spurs, whether he's a big signing or just a ground staff boy, must be dedicated to the game and to the club. He must never be satisfied with his last performance, and he must hate losing" That last quote says everything there is to say about the man who gave so much to one club... I want to order the book now (click here).... |
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