Famous Villa-related quotes

[Legion]

“Villa have been a great club, are still a great club, and always will be a great club.” - Frederick Rinder, 1936.

[Legion]

"Finance is important, but we should never forget that we are not talking about a mere business. This is the Aston Villa football club, and it deserves nothing short of the best." - Frederick Rinder

[Legion]

"Do you want to bet against us?" - Ron Saunders

[Yossarian]

"I invented the bicycle kick" - Doug Ellis

[PaulWinch again]

"Do you want to bet against us?" - Ron Saunders

I love that quote, it's a shame that at the moment the answer is probably yes. Pity how times change.

[olaftab]

“Villa have been a great club, are still a great club, and always will be a great club.” - Frederick Rinder, 1936.

and me  at 19.25 6 December 2011

[Rotterdam]

"Do you want to bet against us?" - Ron Saunders

If you are aware of the context and the tone, this is brilliant...

[PeterWithesShin]

"Proud history, bright future"

**Runs**

[luke25]

"Were not fickle, we just don't like you"

[nigel]

Tha manager has my full support - Doug (many times)

[martin@ardenley]

"If there is a club in the country which deserves to be dubbed the greatest (and the matter is one of some delicacy) few will deny the right of Aston Villa to share the highest niche of fame with even the most historic of other aspirants. For brilliancy and, at the same time, for consistency of achievement, for activity in philanthropic enterprise, for astuteness of management and for general alertness, the superiors of Aston Villa cannot be found."

William McGregor

[martin@ardenley]

"Aston Villa - a name to conjure with, a name to inspire world wide affection, a name to admire and revere."

Peter Morris - The First 100 Years

[Darlo Dave]

"Villa have amazing support. If you hung 11 Villa shirts on a washing line five thousand fans would turn up to watch them!"

Tommy Docherty

[frank]

OK, I know I quote this at every opportunity, but I still find it very moving:

The door to the lavishly appointed Guest Room at Villa Park was open and out in the corridor the little boys, dodging the commissionaire, were calling for Brian Little and John Gidman. Quite rightly, they took no notice of myself and the elderly bald-headed man, bespectacled, stooping a little, who was quietly finishing his tea. He looked at them for a moment, a whimsical look, and moved to the long windows overlooking the now deserted playing pitch.
“Every time you come back here it must bring back memories Pongo” I said. He stared out for a long while. I thought he’d forgotten I was there. “Aye,” he said suddenly, “aye, they’re a great club…the greatest.” I stood and looked with him, this old man whose goals had set the Villa crowds roaring so long ago. It was not quite dusk on that March afternoon and I saw them too…they were out again, the old ghosts…Jack Hughes, scorer just about one hundred years earlier of Aston Villa’s first goal (perhaps to the very day)…George Ramsay…the Hunter brothers…Willie McGregor…Denny Hodgetts…legion upon legion of them on parade now, filling the field with claret and blue…the century with pride.

Peter Morris: “Aston Villa – the First 100 Years”

[Zhong Yi]

"If I had had a gun I'd have shot him"

John Gregory