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.

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  Running, Jobs, Second Chance

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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 didn't say them things that I said.

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  Football, Said

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

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  Soccer, Numbers, Giving

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

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  Fiction, Life Is, Happens

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Karma, Hands, Two

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Mean, Player, Years

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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.

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  Football, Jobs, Player

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

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  Football, Games, Throwing

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

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  Football, Thinking, Balls

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• It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.

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  Country, Rome, Years

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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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• Your chest is different to your head.

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  Different, Chests

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