Big Jock

Following the excellent article in memory of Big Jock,

http://www.talkceltic.net/forum/showthread.php?p=3110784#post3110784

there's not much one can add.

RIP Jock. In all our hearts and for generations to come you will never be forgotten.

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzA4i27tIW4"]Big Jock Stein.........Charlie and the Bhoys. - YouTube[/ame]

 

remember watching the Scotland game when he died,legend and Scotland never deserved him as manager if you ask me,* the SFA

 

13 years had gone,
and Big Jock he moved on,
He won the European cup in Lisbon, in the sun.
9 flags in a row, and silverware galore.
And a whole generation was sad to see him go.

Rest in peace big man.

 

Well said Paddy,RIP big Jock.

 

RIP

 

What more can be said that already hasn't about one of the greatest manager's that has ever graced the world of football and the greatest manager that we have ever had.

25 trophies within the space of 12 years, including the most prized win in European football, and making Celtic one of the most feared - and respected clubs - throughout the world.

Thank you for everything you gave us, Big Man. Gone but most definitely never forgotten and always in our thoughts & hearts.

Jock Stein RIP

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpBmXZgmP0w"]Jock Stein Statue unveiling - YouTube[/ame]
I know a lot of people didn't like Reid, but his speech here sums up a lot of Jock's legacy. One of the all time greats, certainly the best Britain has ever seen. Revolutionised modern football. RIP big man.

 

The word legend gets thrown about to much nowadays but Jock Stein is one and he also created a team full of them.

 

"Without fans who pay at the turnstile, football is nothing. Sometimes we are inclined to forget that. The only chance of bringing them into stadiums is if they are entertained by what happens on the football field."
Jock Stein

"My proudest moment? Every Friday morning when I look at the board at Celtic Park and see my name on the team sheet for tomorrow’s game."
Jock Stein (when a Celtic player & team captain)

“Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love … but I can say that it will be my last love.”
"If I can achieve for Celtic what I have achieved for Hibs, then I feel I will have done well for them"
Jock Stein on becoming Celtic manager, possibly his only understated remark!

"The secret of being a good manager is to keep the six players who hate you away from the five who are undecided."
Jock Stein

"I enjoy being manager here, because I like the people who support us."

"Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players"

“I'd far rather talk about players, they are the people who make things happen. “

"Have the first issue ready for the week after the [Scottish] Cup Final and leave a blank space on page one for a picture of the boys with the Cup!"Jock Stein on the new "Celtic View" in his first season as manager
"I think it is important to win a match, but I think what is even more important is the manner in which you win."

"The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously."

"You go down that pit shaft, a mile underground. You can’t see a thing. The guy next to you, you don’t know who he is. Yet he is the best friend you will ever have."
Jock Stein on the miners

(Before a European Cup game to Hunter Davies (an English Journalist) touring round Celtic and Rangers grounds who was commenting on Celtic's unpretentious surroundings compared to Rangers more "cathedral-like stadium")
"Ach, Rangers are alright, but they still haven't invented blue grass."

“25% of our [Celtic’s] managers have been Protestant!”
Jock Stein on being appointed manager of Celtic, when pointed out with headlines in the papers and by people that he was the first Protestant manager of Celtic (he was only the 4th in the clubs history (retold by Hugh McIlvaney)

“Is it alright if he’s very cheeky that ah can skelp ‘em?”
Jock Stein jokingly to Billy McNeil’s family as he convinced them to let him sign for Celtic (as told by Billy McNeil)

"If they were interested in what I had to say they would get here in time. The door stays shut!"
Jock Stein on barring late coming journos to his press talks

"I think we could win everything in front of us. I think this could be a season to remember."
Jock Stein to various players at the start of the 1966/67 season, quoted by Archie MacPherson

"Jock, if there were two players, one Catholic and one Protestant. Who would you sign?"
"The Protestant"
"Why?"
"Because I know that Rangers would never sign the Catholic"
(winding up Rangers FC over their bigoted signing policies)

"Predicting scores is a mug's game – I'll leave that to Alec Cameron!"
Jock Stein chides about Alec Cameron, a journalist who was very biased to the Huns
"I lost some friends when I made the move, but if that's what matters to them, then they're not really friends at all."
(On his move to Celtic which led to him being shunned and dismissed by his old 'friends')
"It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don’t want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends."
Jock Stein (After winning his first league title as Celtic manager in 1966)


"The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box."

'I feel we have the players fit to wear the mantle of champions of Europe. I have told them so. Now it's up to them.'
Jock Stein after beating Vojvodina Novi in the QF of the European Cup, 1967

"We send Murdoch down to the health farm at Tring to lose some weight and the main result is that we are polluted with bad tips from the wee jockeys he meets there."
Jock Stein joking to Hugh McIlvaney about Bobby Murdoch's weight control


"You go down that pit shaft, a mile underground. You can’t see a thing. The guy next to you, you don’t know who he is. Yet he is the best friend you will ever have." - Jock Stein

"I'm happy where I am, I like the people I work with, I like the players and the directors of this club but most of all I like the fans and to see them happy makes me happy,so I'm very happy here."
When asked about Man Utd showing interest in getting him to manage at Old Trafford in early 70's

"There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons."
Jock Stein's advice to Alex Ferguson, as re-told by Alex Ferguson in an interview in Jun 08 who was speaking about his own infamous temper<table class="WPC-edit-style-list5 WPC-edit-border-rows WPC-edit-styleData-color1=%23ebebeb&color2=%23c7c7c7" align="bottom" cellpadding="3" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td class="WPC-edit-borderTop-none WPC-edit-custom-borderTop" width="100%">
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"My time will come!"
Jock Stein to John Mackenzie of the Scottish Daily Express, prior to European Cup final 1967 after enduring snubs and mind games from opposite number Herrera (Inter Milan Manager)

Stein's inspiring pre-match battle cry was:
"If you're ever going to win the European Cup, then this is the day and this is the place. But we don't just want to win this cup, we want to do it playing good football - to make neutrals glad we've won it, glad to remember how we did it."
Jock Stein before the game 25th March 1967
“Tell me, the 9 o’clock and 10 o’clock mass are all ticket?”
Jock Stein joking to Hugh McIlvaney on the surge of Celtic fans coming to Lisbon to see the team play in the European Cup Final (retold by Hugh McIlvaney)

"I am now going to tell him (Herrera) how Celtic will be the first team to bring the European Cup back to Britain. But it will not help him in any manner, shape or form: we are going to attack as we have never attacked before. Cups are not won by individuals, but by men in a team who put their club before personal prestige. I am lucky - I have the players who do just that for Celtic"
Jock Stein 23rd May 1967

"We must play as if there are no more games, no more tomorrows..."
Jock Stein, shortly before kick off in Lisbon

"We don't just want to win the European Cup. We want to do it playing good football, to make neutrals glad we won it, pleased to remember how we did it."
Jock Stein before the European Cup win in 1967

“Coming here you’ve made history, go out and play to you capability and enjoy yourself.”
Jock Stein to the players as they were to go out to play in the European Cup Final (1967)

After wining the European Cup

"There is not a prouder man on *'s Earth than me at this moment. Winning was important, aye, but it was the way that we have won that has filled me with satisfaction. We did it by playing football. Pure, beautiful, inventive football. There was not a negative thought in our heads. Inter played right into our hands; it's so sad to see such gifted players shackled by a system that restricts their freedom to think and to act. Our fans would never accept that sort of sterile approach. Our objective is always to try to win with style."
Jock Stein, 1967

 

Rest In Peace Jock

 

totally agree. rip jock - the greatest


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R.I.P Jock

 

Words can describe how much of a legend this man was, and how good he was as a manager! In my eyes he's up in my top 3 managers of all time.

 

“Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love … but I can say that it will be my last love.” My favourite Jock quote.

RIP big man, they died chasing you!

 

our national football team is not the SFA. there's a distinction to be made there.

and RIP, dearly missed.

 

Thank * the big man came to celtic.

 

RIP ...thank you for making history.