The Damned Utd Quotes

“You are afraid, afraid of your dreams, your dreams which were once your friends, your best friends, are now your enemies, your worst enemies.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“The sun comes out but the rain stays put. No rainbows today. Not here.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“They love me for what I'm not. They hate me for what I am.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“You wake up and for those few seconds, minutes, you forget; forget you are injured; forget you are finished.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“The things I saw and things I missed-
The many, many bloody things I fucking missed-
It’s just another morning; another morning when I wish I wasn’t here.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Finished off and washed up before your time-
But you will never run a pub. You will never own a shop-
Instead, you will have your revenge-
That is how you shall live-
In place of a life, revenge.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Thank fuck!”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“But there are tears in my eyes and then I can’t stop crying, stood there on that practice pitch in the dark, the tears rolling down my bloody cheeks, for once in my fucking life glad that I’m alone.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“You’ve had enough of failure. Doubts. Had enough of disappointment.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“He once told me, Instead of scoring thirty goals a season, why don't you score twenty-five and help someone else to score fifteen? That way the team's ten goals better off.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Whatever people say you are, that is what you’re not.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“I've seen it before. Been here before. Played or managed here, six or seven times in six or seven years. Always a visitor, always away.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“And I didn't think you believed in god or a heaven.'
'Having been here thirty-four days,' I tell him, 'I've changed my mind, Sydney.'
'Why's that then?' he smiles.
'Well, if there's a hell like this place, then there has to be heaven somewhere.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Why me? All we do is argue.”
“That’s why I want you”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Ten grand in your pocket. But it won’t last. Not at this rate. Jobless and boozing. Fat and fucked. Not unless Peter says yes-
Peter Taylor. The only friend you’ve ever had. Peter Taylor.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“There is always doubt and always fear. There is always trouble, always tension. Tension and trouble; fear and doubt; war, war, war and then, right on cue-
As if by magic, here come Leeds, Leeds, Leeds.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Times change, faces change but the doubt remains, the fear remains-”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Because there is no fucking consolation-
No consolation for not winning-
That’s irreplaceable.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Everybody wants to be you. Everybody loves you; fathers and sons, wives and daughters. Young and old, rich and poor. Because hopes are high in the poor houses, hopes are high in the rich houses-
Hopes you have raised. Hopes you must fulfil.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“These should be the happiest days, weeks and months of your life, but behind the scenes, upstairs and down, there is always doubt, always fear and always trouble-”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Because this is the first thing you have ever won and, like your first pair of boots, your first kiss and your first car, you’ll never forget the hours of this day.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Now before you all go off for your lovely hot baths, before you all piss off in your lovely new suits and your lovely flash card to your lovely new houses and your lovely young wives, you can all get down on your bloody hands and knees and look for my fucking watch!”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“They weren’t bad, were they? I thought Johnny Giles was ace.”
“Fuck off,” I tell him. “You can bloody walk back to Leeds for that.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“The things you’ve done and the things you’ve said; the fists you’ve raised and the bruises you’ve kissed, everything has finally come together and will now stay together.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“There is always one game in every season, one moment in that game, that one moment in that one game in that one season when everything can change, when things can either come together or fall apart for the rest of the season, that one moment when you know you will win this game and then the next and the next, when you know you will have a season to remember, a season never to forget.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“You’ll do for me,” you tell him. “If you do as you’re bloody told.”
“I’d rather play for fucking Leeds,” he tells you.
“You’d fucking fit right in and all,” you laugh. “But they don’t bloody want you, do they?”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“And what if I can’t behave myself? What if I don’t fucking want to?”
“You will,” you laugh. “Because I’m not asking you, I’m fucking telling you.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“If you’re looking for a pal, Mr Clough, you can count me out.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Nothing is ever the way they say it is. Nothing is ever the way you want it to be.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd

“Bit lucky there” says Don. “Thought God might be smiling on you.”
“I don’t believe in luck,” you tell Don. “And I don’t believe in God.”
“So what do you believe in then?” asks Don Revie.
“Me,” you tell him “Brian Howard Clough.”
― David Peace, The Damned Utd