Top 77 Newcastle Quotes

I’m a Newcastle lad, so to be manager is every Geordie’s dream.

The spokesman at Newcastle, unfortunately, was mainly me. I had to manage the football club.

It has been three great years; good moments, bad moments, like football is. I’m really proud of the decision I made. Newcastle is home.

As a striker you are always at the top of the pitch when play is going on in and around your own box, so for me playing up here at St James’ Park and hearing the noise when Newcastle have scored against us, it’s the passion, you see the fans going crazy and it just feels you with energy.

Your boyhood club, the one you’ve supported, the one result that you look for more than anybody else because of my upbringing, has always been Newcastle so to go and manage it is arguably the pinnacle but it’s a really difficult job, I have to tell you.

I am a Newcastle fan like everyone knows.

I’m fortunate that Newcastle and the fans welcomed me with open arms because I know it’s not easy being a former Sunderland player.

With the national team I had to go to Newcastle, Wales, I knew a little about England, but Wolves and Birmingham I did not know anything.

I wanted to help Newcastle, I wanted to make it better. I do not seem to have had that effect.

The North East is a tough, working-class area. Its people boast great humour. But for two days every year, when Newcastle and Sunderland play football, it’s absolute chaos. And very nasty. It borders on tribal hatred.

As a club, there was never any middle ground with Newcastle. They were as high as the sky or in a pit of despair.

I’ve been happy from the start at Newcastle. It has been my favourite club ever since I was small boy in Serbia.

I had a DVD and I think it was called ‘Newcastle United: Flying High’ in 2002 or 2003. I used to watch that all of the time, I think it was the year Shearer scored that famous volley against Everton.

I was only one year at Newcastle, but that time there meant a lot to me. I met some great people who helped me to play good games in the Premier League, and it was because of them I got the move to Liverpool.

I actually had the chance to sign for Newcastle before I went to West Ham; I didn’t in the end because they had got rid of their reserve team. There were a few clubs interested but I liked what West Ham had to offer and never regretted signing for them, I loved it straight away.

And physically and mentally, there were times when Newcastle first sent me out on loan, where I felt I was getting bullied. I was used to Under-23s football, tiki-taka, but in the lower leagues, it’s about results and putting yourself about.

When I first signed for Newcastle, I was still a boy.

I remember when I was walking upstairs to sign for Newcastle, seeing some of the things going up that I saw outside was a bit of a dream come true for me. When St James’ Park is fully packed I will be a bit shocked in those first few games, but this is a great club and I am looking forward to it.

For any Geordie, if you can’t manage to play for Newcastle, then to get back and manage them it’s something special.

I moved to Newcastle as a young boy aged 18 and went straight into the Premier League. It was crazy.

I was going to do business studies in Newcastle because there were a lot of nightclubs. My father said if I went that route, he’d never speak to me again: credit where credit’s due.

St James’ Park was always, in the course of my career, a great place to play football, for the wildness of the crowd and the no-holds-barred football that both my team, Manchester United, and Newcastle would play.

When I was growing up in Newcastle, there was one other Indian girl, and we got confused for each other constantly.

At Newcastle, I was playing in the No 10 position but also in midfield as a left winger.

This is a club with a very big history, and the fans are a big part of that. There will be pressure here, for sure, but I like pressure. I also know about the famous players who have played for Newcastle United, like Alan Shearer, who is a hero of mine.

I want to entertain, I want Newcastle United that is the best it can possibly be.

‘Poundshop Kardashians’ is Newcastle on a Saturday night. Nobody wears coats – it’s all muscles and V-necks and fake tan.

If there is one thing that runs through all Geordies, from grandmas to small children, it is a love of Newcastle United.

Things could be done better over there at Newcastle, but Leicester have given me the opportunity to do great things hopefully.

Coming to manage Newcastle was never going to be easy. But there was never a side to me that thought, ‘Oh no, I do not want that.’

You go down some street – no doubt it’s there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that – but if that’s a picture of Newcastle, it’s not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either.

I am used to just playing football with my mates at Newcastle.

My career has been like that – when I went to Newcastle, Kieron Dyer and Gary Speed were ahead of me and I got into that team. Then they bought Hugo Viana, who had just been crowned Young European Player of the Year, and I still got into the side.

Alan Shearer came in at a time when he was one of the only people on this planet who could have kept Newcastle up and he did a fantastic job in everything else but the odd result not going his way.

Of course many children are dreaming to play for Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Manchester United. I always just wanted to wear the jersey of Partizan, Newcastle, and Serbia.

Newcastle was tough – the manager who’d signed me, Bobby Robson, got sacked three games into the season, so a new manager arrived, and I ended up going on loan again, to Aston Villa.

I understand 100 per cent why someone would want to buy Newcastle United. It’s very clear: it has the potential to be one of the top sides.

I am immensely proud of my achievements with Newcastle and I enjoyed a fantastic relationship with the players, my staff and the supporters during my time as manager.

I will always be a Newcastle United fan all my life.

They rejected me as a player. Newcastle said I wasn’t going to be big or strong enough to make the grade, Burnley said the same. Most people said the same to be fair.

I’m delighted and incredibly proud to be appointed as head coach of Newcastle United.

I had a lot of jobs before I got into music. When I was 15, I was a copy boy for the ‘Evening Chronicle’ in Newcastle. Then I was a journalist. I value those experiences – I got to see how the world works.

Before I signed for Liverpool, I was playing for Newcastle as a No. 10 – basically, I was always attacking. I didn’t have to do much defensive work; I didn’t play as the No. 6 or the No. 8.

The boost in confidence that kept me going in those early days when I was at Newcastle came from Peter Beardsley.

I was a film editor for eight years before I made my first feature, ‘Dog Soldiers.’ I am from Newcastle upon Tyne, in the northeast of England.

Well… I graduated from the business school of Northumberland University in Newcastle.

For managers like me what is our dream? Is it what I did with Newcastle when we finished fifth? Or what Roy Hodgson did in taking Fulham to the Europa League final?

I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.

I always wanted to be a filmmaker and became one through sheer single-mindedness. I came to filmmaking from a background in graphic design. I went to film school at Newcastle Polytechnic.

I know what it means to the supporters of Newcastle to try and win something and realistically, the cup competitions are our best route.

At Leeds, it was to stay up. I was such a young player, Leeds were my club, and we didn’t do it. That was a lot to take. At Newcastle, the expectations to win a trophy were enormous. The No. 1 thing everyone up there thinks about is the football club.

I consider this to be one of the biggest jobs in the country and to get the opportunity to be the manager of Newcastle is not something I’m going to give up lightly.

It was really hard in Newcastle. It was one city, one club. Everybody there was really crazy about Newcastle.

I remember when I left Newcastle to join Tottenham Hotspur, the money was in no way a motivation for me, it was all about becoming a better player.

When I joined Newcastle, at the beginning it was difficult. During pre-season, there was no Ramadan and I also didn’t score then. So it’s a myth. It was about getting into the team, knowing the players better and how they play. My team-mates also have to understand how I play and move.

The FA Cup as a tournament was very good to me. I’d like to think I can still have some association with that because it was the Ronnie Radford goal for Hereford against Newcastle which really put me on the map in 1972.

I’ve got belief that the Newcastle fans know how much I want to play for them.

Since Newcastle I’ve had a fantastic time at Blackburn and then here, at West Ham.

The thing about Springsteen, his music, although he’s writing about, you know, New Jersey and Asbury Park, all of them places, it’s blue-collar towns that, like – it’s similar to Newcastle, where I’m from.