Managers Quotes - Page 6

• If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• Faria Alam whined about the invasion of her privacy in yet another lucrative interview earlier this week. There is very good money to be made out of whining about the invasion of your privacy.

  Rod Liddle

  Soccer, Football, Invasion

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• You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Soccer, Football, Love Life

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• You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlemen of the press with something of a void. And they abhor a void. Soon the discovery that Sven was in fact a hammer-man of legendary proportions filled the void, until the media came to realise that Sven was that rare thing, a man whose astonishing success with women somehow didn't make him more interesting.

  Declan Lynch

  Soccer, Football, Hero

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• There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.

  A. A. Gill

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• The game must have been past my bed-time.

  Theo Walcott

  Soccer, Football, Past

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• With no one collecting his knockdowns, what was Crouch supposed to do, juggle the ball with his head until the midfield support arrived?

  Tony Cascarino

  Soccer, Football, Support

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• It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

  Graham Taylor

  Soccer, Football, Chairman

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• It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• He is inexperienced, but he's experienced in terms of what he's been through.

  Steve McClaren

  Soccer, Football, Term

  "Fab, and Not So Good, Really" by Paul Doyle, Tom Lutz, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2007.

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• Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Country, Wisdom, Pieces

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• Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only for good jobs, but an opportunity if they have the ability and the desire, to be owners and managers, to have a piece of the action, because if they have a piece of the action, then they believe in the system rather than fighting against it.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Wisdom, Jobs, Believe

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• He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off

  George Hamilton

  Football, Captains, Commentators

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• I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Cutting

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• As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Football, Play

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• With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.

  Graeme Souness

  Soccer, Football, Nice

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• I'm-A-God-Look-At-Me.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Football, Looks

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• Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Acne

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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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• He lived in a fantasy world. There was not a day when he didn't add some Mickey Mouse story about a club that wanted him. First of all, he came in and told me that Arsenal wanted to buy him, then the next week it was Manchester Utd, then the next week it was Real Madrid. He made it clear that he did not want to be at the club so, in the end, there was only one thing I could do - send him to Wigan.

  Joe Kinnear

  Soccer, Football, Real

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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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• It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

  Mick McCarthy

  Soccer, Football, Monkeys

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