"Bill will be remembered with gratitude as the most successful manager in the club's history.  his services to football were honoured with the award of the OBE by Her Majesty the Queen, a distinction which I personally think should have been bestowed upon him some years earlier."
 

"I even had the pleasure of meeting Bill Nicholson.  My Dad and I travelled down to Mile End from White Hart Lane station after being invited by Dickie Walker, the Club's chief scout.  Dickie told Bill that I played outside right and, after revealing that my name was not a regular on the score-sheet, the great man's assessment was simple : "The only great winger that did not score goals was Stanley Matthews and you are not going to be as good as him are you Harry ?"  He was right of course."
 

"I went to a match once early on and Tottenham lost so he told me not to come again."

N.B.  His daughters were also prevented from going to games
 

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"I prefer players not to be too good or clever at other things.  It means they concentrate on football."
 

"I remember flying into Warsaw and the train journey down to Katowice took four hours.  It was a very depressed place.  It was a cold mining area.  Everything was grey.  They did their best for us.  I remember going to the stadium and seeing women on their hands and knees with scissors cutting every blade of grass.  The pitch was in immaculate condition. 

However, it was obvious in some cases that the best available was just not good enough in those days.  The hotel standards were a prime example,  It was supposed to be one of the best in that part of Poland.  But to show how wonderful those people were, when we returned with the team the whole hotel had been given a facelift.

It was not exactly the Ritz, but it was still a great deal better than before."
 

"We were a very good side, we knew that.  What we did not know was how to play in Europe. 

We did not know how to play games over two legs.  It made us realise that some teams on the continent prepare for the European ties very differently.  They played a much more containing game.  We had to learnt o eradicate other team's strengths without losing our own qualities.  Gornik did it to perfection and, but for our ability to play outstanding football, we would have been out.

It is so easy when goals are going in to be swept away.  It happened to Gornik at White Hart Lane.  They were crushed 8-1.  They were not that bad but they were caught in a domino effect.  When one goal goes in it is difficult to halt the flood.

It was an amazing start.  Maybe we learnt more in that 90 minutes than we had learnt in 90 years before.  Europe was certainly a different place."
 

"We were due to play Ipswich and in our team chat before the match, I was keen that we should change tactics and have our wing halves mark their wingers instead of our full backs doing the job.

This was because they had wily Jimmy Leadbitter pulling the strings back from deep and I believed that if our full-backs could do a smothering job it would allow us to raid forward while, we hoped, Danny Blanchflower and Dave Mackay throttled them before they could set up anything. 

But there was a disagreement about playing it that way and I conceded the point, because I did not want them playing a tactical plan they were unhappy about.  They beat us home and away.  3-1 on our pitch.  If we had beaten them 3-1 at White Hart Lane would have done the Double again, it was as simple as that.  It was all a question of tactics."

The teams met in the Charity Shield at the start of the following season ...
"There was no nonsense this time.  I put my foot down and told them very firmly that we would play this one my way.  We beat them 5-1."
 

"Any player coming to Spurs, whether he's a big signing or just a ground staff boy, must be dedicated to the game and the club.  He must never be satisfied with his last performance and he must hate losing."
 

"It is better to fail aiming high, than to succeed aiming low.  And we of Spurs have set our aims very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory."
 

"I always said it was an honour to serve Tottenham Hotspur and I feel the same every time I walk back into the stadium."
 

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