Craig Johnston Quotes

Craig Johnston (10)

Birth:	25th June, 1960
Nationality:	British, South African
Profession:	Football Player

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Births

• 1976 - Cillian Murphy
• 1935 - Ann Robinson
• 1979 - Monica Keena
• 1929 - Beverly Sills
• 1921 - Hal David

Deaths

• 2006 - Desmond Dekker
• 1937 - Henry Ossawa Tanner
• 2001 - Alberto Korda
• 2003 - Sloan Wilson
• 1805 - William Paley

• 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.

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• Now Jack Charlton wasn’t wrong, I was a bad footballer.

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• 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.

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• Our football program is bigger than any one person.

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• 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.

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• So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

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• 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.

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• The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

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• We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.

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• 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.

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