Eamon Quotes

I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible. ~ Eamon

Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa. ~ Eamon Dunphy

Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill. ~ Eamon Dunphy

He's one of the biggest whingers in world football ... he's a bloody eejit. ~ Eamon Dunphy

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War. ~ Eamon De Valera

Now I know why you have always desired to see Andilain at this time of year. The sweet fragrance of the trees blossoming remind me of the soft skin at your neck. If we should ever travel here I will insist on taking a carriage. You know how I detest riding horses and after two days my backside would be grateful if I never beheld a saddle again. ~ Jaime Buckley

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night. ~ Eamon De Valera

Of course I wrote most of the Constitution myself. I remember hesitating for a long time over the US presidential system. But it wouldn't have done - we were too trained in English democracy to sit down under a dictatorship which is what the American system really is. ~ Eamon De Valera

That's the first time I've seen sex between two men on the BBC. ~ Eamon Dunphy

As a poet Maria Terrone lives, like the rest of us, in a world of questions marks-but what shines through them is the fierce light of the life force itself ~ Eamon Grennan

I've never managed anywhere, I've managed to stay alive for 63 and a half years baby. ~ Eamon Dunphy

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present. ~ Eamon Duffy

Found out. A nothing player. ~ Eamon Dunphy

When the Italians play the Germans it'll be fascinating. Mightn't be very good football but it'll be great psychology. ~ Eamon

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency. ~ Eamon De Valera

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. ~ Eamon De Valera

All we're trying to do is word the world. Detail is one way we do that. We enumerate, notate, name the things seen. ~ Eamon Grennan

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together. ~ Eamon De Valera

It was like two drunks in a back alley throwing punches at each other. ~ Eamon

We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket ... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us. ~ Eamon Duffy

We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course. ~ Eamon De Valera

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated. ~ Eamon De Valera

You look sad even though we just met No need to get upset But I got a show, gotta go, so I thank you And if you wanna still get sexed down You could catch the next Greyhound But until then, I gotta go, so I thank you ~ Eamon

We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer. ~ Eamon Dunphy

Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath. ~ Eamon

Every club he's been to has had great injury crises. Every club. And it's always hamstrings. ~ Eamon Dunphy

Until men desire to control their own passions, evil has rooted itself in their hearts and darkness will rise again. ~ Jaime Buckley

If history offers no obvious solutions, however, it does at least provide the comfort of knowing that failure is nothing new. ~ Eamon Duffy

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people. ~ Eamon De Valera

I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer. ~ Eamon Dunphy

What I gotta do? Cats don't even have a clue Can't stand to see Me kick a flow so unbelievably And never gave a hand Askin' 'bout the backup plan Now that it's true Forever tellin' me that you always knew ~ Eamon

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme. ~ Eamon De Valera

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part. ~ Eamon De Valera

Ability and guts is an unbeatable combination. ~ Eamon Dunphy

Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction. ~ Eamon De Valera

When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me. ~ Eamon

He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see. ~ Eamon Dunphy

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago. ~ Eamon De Valera

Usually it takes a bottle of Bacardi and a gallon of Coke to get John out of his seat. ~ Eamon Dunphy

That is NOT the arse of a £7million player! ~ Eamon Dunphy

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod. ~ Eamon Dunphy

An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either. ~ Eamon De Valera

After watching Watford against Manchester City last night
that was like a bubblebath. It was beautiful. ~ Eamon

We will forever be vulnerable to the weaknesses in our own hearts and our selfish desires. ~ Jaime Buckley

If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me. ~ Eamon Dunphy

Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or freedom and places it under the sword is tyranny and the enemy of all. ~ Jaime Buckley

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country. ~ Eamon De Valera

It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards. ~ Eamon De Valera

Michel Platini has no bottle. He is not a great player. ~ Eamon Dunphy

I inhale deeply and hold it. Every time I do this lately, I feel like I need to see how long I can hold it. See if I can understand how Eamon must have felt. But I know nothing would make me understand that king of agony. The fear. Did he know he was taking his last breath when he gasped that last time ? ~ Jolene Perry

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict. ~ Eamon De Valera

Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player ~ Eamon

It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious! ~ Eamon

If the day is not going well you can start it again at any time ~ Chris Hutchins

For the plain people of Ireland ... If your car's got a puncture, and you know its got a puncture and its still got a puncture after two weeks, then you don't know how how to change a tyre. ~ Eamon