Tom

“The crest is meant to resemble a gold seal on white stationery, I believe, but it looks remarkably like a urine stain on a bedsheet,”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Hod King

“There are two types of coaches. There’s coaches like me who weigh up the opposition and ask the team to adjust. Fergie was similar. José [Mourinho] is similar. Then there’s Arsène, who won’t adjust. There’s Brendan [Rodgers], who looks like he won’t adjust. There’s Manuel Pellegrini, who looks like he won’t adjust … their philosophy is different to ours. Ours is more about who are we playing against. Their philosophy is more, “We always play this way,” and they won’t change, they carry on doing the same thing. That’s why you can beat them.”
― Michael Cox, The Mixer: The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines

“A man may rot like an egg: His shell does not show it, but all that is within him has gone foul.”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Hod King

“No labour was more Heraclean than the labour of being Heracles.”
― Stephen Fry, Heroes: Mortals and Monsters, Quests and Adventures