Top 150 Ham Quotes

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

There’s been a ham in every generation of our family.

I, being the ham that I am, always want people looking at me.

I don’t think I will fully appreciate it until I have retired. My dad will ring me after a game and if we’ve lost it’s the end of the world for me but he will say: ‘I don’t think you realise – you are captain of West Ham, you grew up supporting the club.’

I enjoyed every second at West Ham with the lads and the staff.

To wear this shirt, especially with the West Ham badge on it – it takes an honest player, hard-working, a player that leaves everything on the pitch and plays for the crest on the shirt.

At West Ham I had a fantastic relationship with the board but I was really upset with them when they sold the club without telling me. I then had new owners I didn’t get on particularly well with.

If I was a normal player at West Ham and wanted to join a Chinese club, nobody would have said anything. But since I was a leader at West Ham and thought about that offer, I was suddenly a bad man.

I like to eat a whole lot. I have an inner chubby girl, and her name is Mabel, and I feed Mabel a lot. I give her what she wants. If Mabel wants a honey bun, she gets it. If Mabel wants Krispy Kreme, she gets it. If Mabel wants fried chicken or ham hocks, she gets what she wants.

If I were to return to Japan, Nippon Ham would be my top choice. No doubt about that.

Playing Tottenham seems to rile up West Ham like nothing else – something that when I first went to Spurs I didn’t really understand.

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn’t a vegetable without a little ham hock.

I’m definitely a ham for the paparazzi.

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.

I’ve had a bond with West Ham since growing up as a kid, going to Upton Park, looking up to the players.

I see it every week – parents shouting and screaming at kids. My dad was the same. He was always there, but he never interfered. Ron Greenwood, who was the manager of West Ham when I was a kid, wouldn’t allow any parent to shout from the touchline. He thought players should be allowed to think for themselves.

West Ham have a great academy.

I was just a ham since about the age of five. If I was performing at Medieval Times or something, I’d be the court jester. That was always my defense mechanism. I was never all that funny; I was just obnoxious and loud.

Maybe it’s because I’m an only child or just an extroverted person, and I’m a kind of a ham, you know?

I love a good breakfast – grits and eggs, French toast, turkey bacon. My grandmother on my father’s side used to make tea cakes, and her breakfasts were unbelievable. There was fresh ham, and she would go out to the yard to get fresh eggs. She lived in rural Louisiana, and we’d spend summers with her.

My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: ‘The Belllllls!’ What we call ‘ham’ now, larger than life.

My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.

Believe me, I look back on West Ham in a good way.

Green Eggs and Ham’ is fire.

It was the case that I wanted to go. Not because I don’t like West Ham, but because I need to have minutes on the pitch.

When I was a player, you only left the club if they wanted to get rid of you. That was your team – if you were at West Ham, you didn’t leave until the manager wanted to replace you. You didn’t think about playing for Arsenal or Chelsea.

I am something of a ham. Yeah, I’d always been a writer. But in high school, I acted in plays. So it wasn’t as if you had to drag the words out of my vocal chords.

I’m quite happy to laugh at Argentina’s obsession with ham and cheese, but not, you know, delicate bits of their history.

I’m as passionate as the fans, I want West Ham to do well whether I’m in the team or not.

I’ve been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It’s like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

It’s frustrating to see a club as great as West Ham not really pushing for the top six, they have everything, they have the fans, the stadium, they have to be pushing for top 6 without a doubt.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

I didn’t want to write a cheffy cookbook with dehydrated ham chips.

I had four great years at West Ham. People will always refer to the difficulties at certain times, but you get those everywhere.

Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.

When I couldn’t play at West Ham, I kept my mentality, and I went to train every day to be a better player.

At West Ham, I was the last person to be offered a scholarship. I remember an Under 18 match against Fulham. I was 16 and had to prove myself. Everyone else already had their scholarship. It was probably one of my best games. Knowing that every day I’d have to fight has made me into the person I am today.

I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.

I’ve got a lot of ham in me.

I was voted Biggest Ham and Likeliest to Become a Celebrity.

West Ham was the best choice for me on the back of my best season in Ligue 1. I don’t think there was much room left for progress in Ligue 1.

The passionate fans they have and also the ambition of the manager and the chairman. It was an easy descion to choose West Ham. London is also closer to my wife’s side of the family – so provided her more help to raise the kids. Everything made sense and I’m extremely happy.

I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy. Look at Bardot: she was suicidal. But I like to play with the camera. I like to ham it up.

My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses.

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that’s what I wanted to be. I’m made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!

I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

I had a year out playing local football before I went to Charlton at 12. West Ham was the club I supported so it was a hard decision to leave.

It’s tricky because obviously when you join a new club, from the very first day, everyone looks at you and tries to see if you are good enough. That’s more or less what you have to go through. Then the other thing is that when I signed for West Ham nobody told me I was going to be number one.

It wasn’t until after Raspberries, Big Star and Badfinger came to exist that powerpop became a genre. In each case, I suspect Pete Ham, Alex Chilton and I all felt the same void after the Beatles broke up, and somehow we were all trying to fill it.

You have to hit the ground running at West Ham. If you don’t, suddenly from the fans it’s, ‘You’re not good enough to play for our football club.’

In the end, it was a no-brainer to join West Ham, but I still needed to take five minutes to myself because it’s a big moment for anyone to move club, especially off the pitch when it involves moving to a big city. You’ve got to take every single factor into consideration because it’s a big decision in your life.

Sunderland, West Ham and Orlando City wanted me but Villa wouldn’t sell me, saying I was too vital in the dressing room.

I scored nine goals for Hull and a hat-trick for Scotland in the first half of the season, you don’t do that and then become an average player overnight, so I know I can contribute to West Ham.

I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.

I can’t really cook, but the first dish I ever made was for my girlfriend, Eleanor. I made chicken breast wrapped in ham, homemade mashed potatoes, and gravy.

Born ham, that’s basically me.

The plan was that I was going to retire and take a job with the American Federation, but Nottingham Forest offered me a contract and there was interest from West Ham and another Premiership club.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

I went to West Ham without ever having coached and I know what that means.

I’m a girl from East Ham.

I’m really happy that West Ham and Manuel Pellegrini have given me a chance to be playing again.