Unravelling the mystery of the headers of the new musings season

• Any player who allows his long hair to distract him is stupid.
  ---Argetina's Claudio Caniggia reacts to national team manager Daniel Passarella's clamp-down on long tresses. (94)

• I can't teach lame ducks to fly anymore.
  ---United States coach Bob Gansler tenders his resignation. (85)

• Like a nitro-glycerine juggler.
  ---Joe Royle when asked what it felt to be manager of Oldham Athletic. (94)

• We are like water---we simply come back as rain to complete an extraordinary cycle.
  We are the same and will never go away.
  ---Wimbledon chairman Sam Hamman's programme notes. (94)

• You can't see the pitch from the bench... all you can see is legs.
  ---Alan Hudson(96)

• They do not judge Pavarotti by how he sings in the shower.
  ---Holland's Leo Beenhakker, criticized after losing to Austria in the build-up to the World Cup (90)

• (I'm not bothered about going back to play for England.)
  I'd rather rebuild Hadrian's Wall.
  ---Glasgow Rangers' former England goalkeeper Andy Goram (95)

• (When you buy and buy) You're not building, you're just shifting sand.
  ---Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson defending his club's conservative transfer policy (00)

• (We are the Cinderellas of the World Cup)
  Our mission is to postpone midnight for as long as possible.
  ---Jamaica coach Rene Simoes (98)

• Look at Norman Schwarzkopf in the Gulf. If anything was Route One, that was.
  ---England FA director of coaching Charles Hughes(94)

• (It gets difficult when you have to keep selling your best players.)
  You have to try to pull another rabbit out of the hat.
  ---John Rudge on his fifteen years in charge at Port Vale (98)

• I've the orchestra baton now, though there're not many singers around.
  ---Phil Neal admitting the size of his task at Manchester City (96)

• A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.
  ---Cambridge United's John Beck quoting from Mark Twain before a 0-3 home defeat to Swindon Town. (92)

• If a fox is brilliant, he finds himself a hole and hides.
  (If his position is discovered, he is dug up and thrown to the hounds.)
  ---Brian Clough (70s)

• It's like taking care of a flower. If you take the roots away the flower dies.
  (We are the heart and soul of football in this country.)
  ---Barry Hearn on lower division football league clubs in England. (02)

• I am too old to express an opinion on the latest developments with young people.
  --- Nelson Mandela when asked what he thought of David Beckham's new hairdo. (03)

• It is other people who are stoking the fire to keep it going.
  (The players are not interested. It is last year's stuff.)
  --- Celtic chairman Rab Douglas on the controversial climax to the Scottish league season. (03)

• I am not the godfather here, more the older brother.
  --- Paolo Di Canio on his role at new club Charlton Athletic. (03)

• (You can have the best collection of footballers ever,)
  But if there is no one driving the bus, you'll not get there.
  --- Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson (90s)

• (We need time for the young boys but that is the only way forward for Scotland.)
  It is very painful this way but we must go this way. I am sorry.
  --- Scotland manager Berti Vogts gets his apologies in ahead of the halpless dirge he is about to serve up.(04)

• (I didn't realise that Vladmir Putin had taken over CHelsea television.)
  He runs the television station in Russia as well, you know.
  --- Former Chelsea chairman Ken Bates on why the club stopped tributes to him on Chelsea TV. (04)

• Any one who was any good was already in a job.
  --- Former Spurs chairman Alan Sugar explains his rationale for appointing Christian Gross as manager. (98)

• My first reaction was, where the hell had they got the pizzas from?
  --- Former Manchester United player George Best (04)

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