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If you're good enough, the referee doesn't matter.
Jock Stein
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Jock Stein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1922
Born: October 5
Died: 1985
Died: September 10
Association Football Manager
Association Football Player
Football Player
Hamilton
Scotland
John Stein
Referee
Doesn
Matter
Enough
Good
More quotes by Jock Stein
No Scot ever made a bigger impact on a club than Bill Shankly. Others may claim an equal share of trophies and Matt Busby comes to mind with his wonderful record crowned by the European Cup, but not even Matt would claim the kinship with the fans that Bill enjoyed. He was what football was all about. I can't praise him higher than that.
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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.
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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.
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There is always a time to move on.
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Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love.
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Without fans who pay at the turnstile, football is nothing. Sometimes we are inclined to forget that. The only chance of bringing them into stadiums is if they are entertained by what happens on the football field.
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My proudest moment? Every Friday morning when I look at the board at Celtic Park and see my name on the team sheet for tomorrow's game.
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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.
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There is no substitute for experience
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There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.
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There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.
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