Managers Quotes - Page 4

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

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Football, Two

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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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• 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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• I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Baby

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• People don't know about football. They think they know about it but they don't know much.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

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• Four wins in four matches. It could not be better... the world is fantastic.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Clever

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• I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists.

  Arsene Wenger

  Beautiful, Soccer, Football

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• I think Pep Guardiola is a top manager. There's no doubt about that. Not only did he manage Messi and Iniesta, but he made them better and took them to levels they'd never been before. The best team I've ever seen is Pep Guardiola's Barcelona. I'm sure his management got something to do with that.

  Jamie Carragher

  Team, Thinking, Doubt

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• What happened in the United changing room has happened to me 50 times in my career. I have kicked bottles of mineral water, bags and shoes but I never hit a player. It's a question of technique, and the Scots must have a better technique.

  Marcello Lippi

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I'm-A-God-Look-At-Me.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Looks

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• Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

  Chris Coleman

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• We did not pass the ball... we couldn't have found our front two with radar.

  Joe Royle

  Soccer, Football, Two

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• Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland?

  Lawrie Sanchez

  Soccer, Football, Names

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• We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.

  Ken Bates

  Soccer, Wise, Football

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• Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

  Ken Bates

  Soccer, Football, Attitude

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

  Sam Allardyce

  Soccer, Football, Santa

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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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