Harry Redknapp Quotes

• If you can't pass the ball properly, a bowl of pasta's not going to make that much difference!

  Harry Redknapp

  Differences, Balls, Pasta

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• I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in foreign. I knew they were saying "Blah, blah, blah, le bastard manager..."

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Couple

  "Said & Done" by Davis Hills, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2004.

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• We've got sports scientists who insist it's important for the lads to eat after games to refuel, even if it's 2am. I used to refuel after games at West Ham until half past three in the morning in a different way - but then I'm old school.

  Harry Redknapp

  Sports, Morning, School

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• Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it. Too small, you would think - can't run, dumpy little ginger nut - but then the ball would come to him and he would dazzle you. He was the best footballer in that Manchester United midfield, better than Ryan Giggs and Roy Keane.

  Harry Redknapp

  Running, Football, Player

  "A Man Walks On To a Pitch: Stories from a Life in Football". Book by Harry Redknapp, October 9, 2014.

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• It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Lifeboats

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• I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Drinking, Player

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• I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• He's disappeared to Azerbaijan, or somewhere ridiculous in the world.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Azerbaijan, World

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• I can't keep protecting people who don't want to run about and train, who are about three stone overweight. What am I supposed to keep saying? 'Keep getting your 60, 70 grand a week but don't train'? What's the game coming to?

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Running, Games

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• Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'.

  Harry Redknapp

  Wife, Threat, Journalist

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• I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Morning, Home

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• Samassi Abou don’t speak the English too good.

  Harry Redknapp

  Speak

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• I write like a two-year-old and I can't spell.

  Harry Redknapp

  Writing, Years, Two Year Olds

  "Harry Redknapp: 'I write like a two-year-old and can't spell'" by Ben Rankin, www.mirror.co.uk. January 26, 2012.

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• He is not injured. He's not fit. He's not fit to play football, unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other day and I could have run about more than he did. I can't pick him.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Running, Games

  "QPR boss Harry Redknapp slams 'overweight' Adel Taarabt after leaving him out of Liverpool defeat" by Liam Prenderville, www.mirror.co.uk. October 19, 2014.

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• Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Stupid

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• When I heard the draw I was out on the golf course. I had an eight-iron in one hand and my mobile in the other. When we came out with United, my club went further than the ball.

  Harry Redknapp

  Golf, Eight, Hands

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• What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, War

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• I took Kanu on the Tuesday before the first game of the season because I never had any strikers. He said he hadn't kicked a ball since last season and I asked him if he'd been training.

  Harry Redknapp

  Games, Tuesday, Training

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• I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Sitting

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• You come here to Anfield, you stand there and listen to that crowd, and it's the greatest sight in football.

  Harry Redknapp

  Football, Sight, Anfield

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• The only relaxed boss is Big Ron. He had me drinking pink champagne - before the match.

  Harry Redknapp

  Drinking, Boss, Champagne

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• You couldn't put a value on him, he's on another planet. For me, Lionel Messi is undoubtedly the No.1 player in the world.

  Harry Redknapp

  Player, Messi, World

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• Lionel Messi is the most amazing player I have ever seen.

  Harry Redknapp

  Player, Messi, Most Amazing

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• I don't care about Christmas, we are going to train on Christmas Day.

  Harry Redknapp

  Christmas, Care, Train

  "United restore Premier League lead". www.cnn.com. December 21, 2003.

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• Thierry Henry is a fantastic professional and will be massive here in New York, i'm sure, he is world class

  Harry Redknapp

  New York, Class, World

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