Tommy Smith (footballer, born 1945)

"Don't go for the player, go for the ball."

"I have never started a fight in my life but I have finished a few... sometimes I shudder when I think about what I have done."

"I don't think tackling is at all acceptable these days... there are a lot of cheats in the game, too."

"Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried."

"If he isn't named Footballer of the Year, football should be stopped and the men who picked any other player should be sent to the Kremlin."

"If Shankly was the Anfield foreman, Paisley was the brickie, ready to build an empire with his own hands.""