Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

- Ken Bates

What a few fans are trying to do is cause trouble.

- Ken Bates

Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment, sla…

- Ken Bates

I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth, absolute animals and a disgrace. I w…

- Ken Bates

There's none as deaf as those who won't listen. I get letters. If they are moronic, they go in the wastepaper basket, but if they are reasonable poin…

- Ken Bates

I never make forecasts but whoever wins that game will win the final.

- Ken Bates

Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.

- Ken Bates

It's said the FA chairman (Keith Wiseman) would travel 200 miles to open a biscuit tin. Why?

- Ken Bates

I get to my feet when Chelsea fans sing 'Stand up if you hate Man U'. But though I hate them, I have to admire them too.

- Ken Bates