Managers Quotes - Page 22

• The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.

  Ron Noades

  Soccer, Football, Team

  "Sorry seems to be the hardest word" by Steven Wells, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2002.

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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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Jesus

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• Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Sorry

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• This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar...in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Let slip the dogs of champions.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Dog

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• We played a whole season unbeaten but you did not see me every week jumping on the tables. Once it's over it's over and you do in the next one as well as you can. Plenty of managers who have won the Champions League will not be considered great managers.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Jumping

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• He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.

  Didier Drogba

  Soccer, Football, Minutes

  "Drog: Jose Is a Living God" by Neil McLeman, www.mirror.co.uk. January 18, 2006.

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• Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, War

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• It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, War

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• For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Fun

  "Mourinho cool despite Man Utd run". news.bbc.co.uk. April 7, 2006.

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• It is like having a blanket that is too small for the bed, you pull the blanket up to keep your chest warm, and your feet stick out. I cannot buy a bigger blanket because the supermarket is closed. But the blanket I have is made of cashmere. So it's good.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Feet

  "José Mourinho: The enigma who inspires love and hate" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• If Ashley Cole is ready we have 15 players for the final. I'll have to choose between Hilario, who's not bad playing forward or I'll bring in one of the kids.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Kids

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