Danny Blanchflower Quotes

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The great fallacy is that the game is first and last about winning. It is nothing of the kind. The game is about glory, it is about doing things in style and with a flourish, about going out and beating the lot, not waiting for them to die of boredom.

Danny Blanchflower

Hoddle a luxury? It's the bad players who are a luxury.

Danny Blanchflower

If we don't know what we're going to do, how can the other side?

Danny Blanchflower

Whether you're a player, manager, trainer, director, supporter, reporter, kit man or tea lady, football possesses the power to make the week ahead sparkle with a sense of joyous well-being, or black with the unpalatability of unrealised hope and expectation.

Danny Blanchflower

Of Football:

No play, movie or TV programme, work of literature or music induces such a polarisation of emotion on a weekly basis. We curse football for having this power.

Danny Blanchflower

It is football's power to so readily and regularly corrupt emotions and senses that is the addictive and enduring appeal of the game. It's an intangible power. It exists somewhere out in the ethers. It is the heart of the game.

Danny Blanchflower

Our tactics have always been to equalize before the other team score. Now I think they scored first and then we equalized, but we equalized the second time before they scored.

Danny Blanchflower

Danny Blanchflower

Danny Blanchflower

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Born: February 10, 1926

Died: December 9, 1993 (aged 67)

Bio: Robert Dennis "Danny" Blanchflower was a former Northern Ireland international footballer and football manager, and journalist who captained Tottenham Hotspur during its double-winning season of 1961.

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