Imma violate yall asses like Chris Stokes.

I want to stay at Stoke and play for Stoke.

When we were kids, Stoke was massive in Norway.

You just have to stoke that furnace throughout the day.

I've grown up a lot in England since I arrived at Stoke.

No nation should stoke instability in its neighbor's country.

Stoke are a team who are very well organised and very disciplined.

No one wants to stoke coal if he can regulate an oil valve instead.

Stoke's a depressed area, so people are working hard to get out of it.

Of course it's a big change from Stoke to Liverpool. Liverpool is a big, big team.

Coming to Stoke was a chance for me to develop and take my game to the next level.

Without doubt, some of the happiest moments of my career have come in a Stoke shirt.

Whichever way the result goes, my 1,000th game will be at Stoke and I had great times there.

I've been at Stoke for eight years... I think I've had the same towel for almost eight years.

If I were to leave Stoke, it would have to be a step up for me. Everything would have to be right.

Never rush through the stoke. Nervous or not, take your time, and the result is almost always better.

Here at Stoke, I cannot exert too much influence, simply because there is a lack of quality around me.

Mark Hughes convinced me to come to Stoke, he has helped me and showed his trust in me from the beginning.

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.

When I came to Stoke, I expected them to be moving forward, every year getting better, but it's not been like this.

To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the building trade, I worked in a builders' merchants in Stoke.

I'm at Stoke, I'm enjoying it, it's not my fault and I shouldn't be discriminated against just because who I play for.

The VAR was introduced to reduce controversies, and instead, they have increased - possibly because we Italians like to stoke them.

My ambitions are to be the Stoke number one and England number one, but there are other things I want to achieve in my career as well.

Of course Messi could handle a cold Tuesday night in Stoke. He'd be drinking tea and relaxing beforehand. Me? I'd probably be the same.

There's no reason why we can't win trophies at Stoke, we'll try and win some cups and do as well as we can, but I obviously have ambitions.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

I have really got into watching the unsigned bands. They play mad venues like the Sugarmill in Stoke and all sorts of underground, grimy places.

I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my father worked.

When you leave a club like Liverpool, you have to go somewhere you'll feel comfortable and progress as a player. To come to Stoke was an easy decision.

I played at Anfield twice when I was with Stoke and it's a hard place to go, we all know that Liverpool is one of the best teams in the Premier League.

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

Britain First is an extremist organisation which seeks to divide communities through their use of hateful narratives which spread lies and stoke tensions.

Everybody wants things now. If I hadn't been given the time at Stoke, or at other clubs earlier in my career, I don't think I would have ever been successful.

The perception is that the Stoke players were one-dimensional: that they could only play in a certain way, and that was the top and bottom of their capabilities.

The thing is, Stoke City pulled me out of a situation where I was not playing, where I was not happy, and that was in Germany. They have breathed new life into me.

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

I've never lived in north or west London, so I'd like to come out of my comfort zone for a bit. But Stoke Newington is where my heart is, it's where I'm born and bred.

Stoke City gave me the opportunity to play in the most competitive league in the world, and I have only words of gratitude for their trust and for the way they have treated me.

As soon as I was given the opportunity at Stoke it was head down, this is what I want. This is where I want to be, this is my opportunity and I was fully confident about taking it.

The forces that have worked hard to stoke populist anger against reform are the very ones that benefit from a health system which puts profits ahead of quality care for its patients.

As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watch Bollywood movies. I'd get bored and go out to Stoke Newington common to play football.

I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.

My brother was an avid Stoke City fan and a good footballer. We shared a room, growing up, and the walls were covered with 1970s Stoke players, like Peter Shilton, Gordon Banks, and Jimmy Greenhoff.

There are lots of brownfield sites in Stoke, but they are not suitable for building executive homes. It needs to be surrounded by fields. It needs to be on greenbelt land. That's what executives want.

'Flash mobs' are reported on extensively because they're novel and can be used to stoke fears of young people and the Internet. The media, of course, have absolutely no clue what they're reporting on.

Where Republicans encourage popular myths about taxes, spending, and climate change, Democrats tend to stoke our fantasies about the sustainability of entitlement spending as well as about the cost of new programs.

I feel secure in my life, and I'm happy with where I'm at. I realise in some ways how enchanted my life's been. I could have ended up on a bench outside Stoke station begging for money. I was one of the lucky ones.

I would like to think that during my time at Stoke - and other clubs I was at - I was always a manager that wanted to play in the right way, with purpose, with drive, and to try to dictate to the opposition if you could.

I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?

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