Craig Johnston Quotes
"We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time."
- Craig Johnston
(Related: Time, Boss)
"You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards."
- Craig Johnston
(Related: Time, Commitment, Football, Skill, Understanding)
"So I did in fact spend two and a half years in the Middlesbrough car park practising skills. But if you spend four or five or six hours a day practising, you get better."
- Craig Johnston
(Related: Car, Day, Fact, Years)
"Our football program is bigger than any one person."
- Craig Johnston
(Related: Football)
"OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make."
- Craig Johnston
(Related: Football, Mistakes, Soccer)
"Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer."
- Craig Johnston
(Related: Now, Wrong)
"I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work."
- Craig Johnston
(Related: Work, Flowers, Mind, Television)
"And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me."
- Craig Johnston
(Related: Being, Football, Kids, World)
"So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills."
- Craig Johnston
(Related: Car, Time)