Managers Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf.

  Ron Atkinson

  Soccer, Football, Taken

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• Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.

  John Gregory

  Soccer, Football, Stress

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• Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Football, Dog

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• I'm not going to make a present of Santa.

  Sam Allardyce

  Soccer, Football, Santa

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• Nine months of misery.

  Steve Coppell

  Soccer, Football, Months

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• I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.

  Neil Warnock

  Soccer, Football, President

  "Warnock - mad as chips" by Kevin Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2002.

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• I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.

  Kevin Bond

  Soccer, Football, England

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• A terrific game, even on the losing side I could enjoy it.

  Nigel Worthington

  Soccer, Football, Games

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

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, War

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• It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.

  Steve Coppell

  Soccer, Football, Luck

  "The quiet man". Interview with Amy Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.

  Tony Adams

  Soccer, Football, Emotional

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• I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.

  Terry Butcher

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• On current form, both teams will probably lose.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• He's not fit, either physically or biomechanically.

  Aidy Boothroyd

  Soccer, Football, Fit

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• If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Asking

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• I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Numbers

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• I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

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• In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.

  Jens Lehmann

  Soccer, Football, Mirrors

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• At the highest level the first two yards are in your head.

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Football, Two

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• Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Men

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• We've been beaten before but never defeated. Tonight we were defeated.

  Helenio Herrera

  Soccer, Football, Tonight

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• If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

  Claudio Ranieri

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

  Claudio Ranieri

  Soccer, Football, Mother

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