Glenn Hoddle Quotes

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I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.

Glenn Hoddle

Running, Jobs, Second Chance

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When a player gets to 30, so does his body

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Soccer, Player, Doe

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I didn't say them things that I said.

Glenn Hoddle

Football, Said

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He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.

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Soccer, Goal, Natural

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I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.

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Soccer, Numbers, Giving

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He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

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Soccer, Player, Years

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You can never compare two players that are different, they're never going to be the same.

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Player, Two, Different

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You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap.

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Karma, Lifetime

"Hoddle's Future in Doubt After Disabled Slur" by John Arlidge and Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 1999.

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Michael Owen could be Sir Alex's best ever buy, even though he didn't buy him

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Alex, Best Ever

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Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success

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Years, Three, Used

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No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.

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People, World, Behind The Scenes

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The FA Cup is still domestically the best cup in the world.

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World, Cups, England

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75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.

Glenn Hoddle

Fiction, Life Is, Happens

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You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

Glenn Hoddle

Karma, Hands, Two

"Is Believing in God Irrational". Book by Amy Orr-Ewing, p.75, October 2, 2008.

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Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

Glenn Hoddle

Mean, Player, Years

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I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.

Glenn Hoddle

Football, Thinking, Balls

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Everton are now hitting the ropes running.

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Running, Rope, Hitting

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My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job.

Glenn Hoddle

Football, Jobs, Player

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You have to look at things that happened in your life and ask why. It comes around.

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Looks, Happened, Asks

"Explain yourself, FA tells Hoddle" by Jamie Wilson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 1999.

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The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

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Football, Team, Winning

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If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!

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Player, Feelings, Tin

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United will break caution to the wind

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Wind, Break, Caution

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Your chest is different to your head.

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Different, Chests

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There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game.

Glenn Hoddle

Football, Games, Throwing

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Chelsea are playing with much more refreshing ness

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Refreshing, Chelsea

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Born: October 27, 1957
Occupation: Soccer player
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