Personal Life
Quinn appeared on BBC TV's Football Focus as part of their Cult Heroes series in 2005, inspired by his relatively prolific two seasons as Highfield Road. Whilst at Coventry, he was nicknamed 'Sumo' and famously quoted that he was the Premier League's "fastest player over a yard". He attracted the crowd chant of "Who Ate All the Pies?" due to his physique, which he used as the title of his 2003 autobiography. Other nicknames included "Sumo" and "Bob", the latter from football fans who claimed that he bore a physical resemblance to the television presenter Bob Carolgees.
Quinn applied for the manager's job at Burnley in 1996, but it went to Adrian Heath instead, and he decided to retire from football and concentrate on his career as a racehorse trainer. He now has stables at Newmarket, Suffolk. Quinn's horse trainers licence was revoke in March 2001 after he was found guilty of neglecting three horses in his care following a complaint to the RSPCA.He was banned for two and a half years but this was subsequently reduced on appeal to eighteen months and he resumed his training career in early 2003. He also covers horse racing and football for the radio station TalkSPORT.
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