54 Hooligan Quotes

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Famous Hooligan Quotes

False Hustle = cheap fouls, lunging, reaching, etc. — Billy Donovan

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs. — Thomas Keneally

Every team has a hard man. We has Nobby Stiles, Chelsea had Chopper, Arsenal had Peter Storey, Liverpool had Tommy Smith. Leeds had eleven of them — George Best

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide. — Mickey Mantle

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind. — Roy Keane

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE. — Sid Vicious

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff. — Ryan Lochte

The true believer, no matter how rowdy and violent his acts, is basically an obedient and submissive person. — Eric Hoffer

If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS. — Tupac Shakur

I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music. — Aphex Twin

If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action. — Ulrike Meinhof

Between '89 and '93 I was a wild child, a real nutter. — Sayings

A thug only understands you when you speak his language — Alexander Lukashenko

I am a hell raiser. I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing. — Kareena Kapoor

Short Hooligan Quotes

  • My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan. — Eric Cantona
  • I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism. — James Callaghan
  • Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen. — Winston Churchill
  • There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match. — Brian Clough
  • We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought. — Salman Rushdie
  • Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start. — Matt Busby
  • No one knows what it's like ... to be a dustbin ... in Shaftesbury ... with hooligans. — Bill Hicks
  • Yesterday, some hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shaftesbury. — Bill Hicks
  • I am what you call a hooligan- — Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded. — Tzipi Livni

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More Hooligan Quotes

The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose. — Newt Gingrich

Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation. — Quentin Crisp

Nowhere else did repressions, purges, suppressions, and all other kinds of bureaucratic hooliganism in general acquire such horrifying scope as in Ukraine, in the struggle against powerful forces concealed in the Ukrainian masses that desired more freedom and independence. — Leon Trotsky

Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever. — Quentin Crisp

England is, after all, the land where children are beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world. — Colin MacInnes

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan. — Jacques Derrida

Rupert Murdoch gave up his Australian citizenship in order to buy television stations in the United States, which is symptomatic of the way Murdoch operates. Everything is for sale, including his birthright. The Mirror is not read by soccer hooligans. It's read by ordinary people of this country. That comment is simply patronizing. But to be criticized by the Moonies and Murdoch in one breath is really just a fine moment for me. — John Pilger

Hooliganism incarnate, a walking, talking, screaming, squawking metaphor for What's Wrong With Young People Today. — Julie Burchill

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'. — Edward Abbey

I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there. — Isaac Asimov

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired. — Robert Baden-Powell

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India. — Mahatma Gandhi

I had a lot of fun with Frank Sinatra, because he was such a hooligan, and so to himself, he was the king, and everything was his way, and I enjoyed watching that. — Debbie Reynolds

Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE. — Trevor Phillips

Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq. — Ted Rall

In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated — Wallace Mercer

I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically. — Nick Hornby

Mildred waves Carlos over. 'Let me look at you.' She eyes him up and down. 'I saw you when you walked in. What's with all those tattoos? Makes you look like a hooligan.' 'I suspect I am a hooligan,' he says to her. 'Whatever that means. — Simone Elkeles

Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON! — Cassandra Clare

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