Managers Quotes - Page 7

• We live for games like these.

  Alex McLeish

  Soccer, Football, Games

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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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• 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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• A message to the best football supporters in the world. We need a 12th man here. Where are you? Where are you? Let's be having you. Come on!

  Delia Smith

  Soccer, Football, Men

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

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Asking

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

  Helenio Herrera

  Soccer, Football, Tonight

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

  Luiz Felipe Scolari

  Soccer, Football, Jesus

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• Let slip the dogs of champions.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Dog

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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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• 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 don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Jealous

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• Do you have a brother or cousin in Ivory Coast, because I don't have the money to bring you to Porto.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Cousin

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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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• Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, War

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