Managers Quotes - Page 8

• 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 had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

  Rafael Benitez

  Soccer, Football, Two

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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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• You are pushed to behave differently here, you don't really have a choice. If you cheat you have no chance of being admired. Even your own supporters will dislike you. So what do you do? Well, the way is not to be stupid, but not to cheat either. If there is a foul, you have to fall. I call it 'helping the referee to make a decision'. That's not cheating.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Cheating

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• Eleven against eleven they never beat us.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Beats

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• When I take my kids to the zoo in Los Angeles, they always look the longest at the creature that moves the least - especially those in the reptile house. I asked myself: 'Who are the people that are pretty cool but also very still and monotone in their expression?' and I thought of Jose Mourinho.

  Julian Sands

  Soccer, Football, Zoos

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• I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

  David Blunkett

  Soccer, Football, Incarnation

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• The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Tomorrow

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• Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Soccer, Football, Country

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

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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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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• He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

  Gary Lineker

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  " My granny could have coached Brazil, says Lineker" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2006.

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• The combination of an out-of-control tabloid press and a readership that thrills to the destruction of the England head coach is something no other country can offer. Scolari was driven out; Steve McClaren's personal life made the front pages. Neither of them even held the job. Then there was the fake-sheikhing of Sven-Göran Eriksson. That a newspaper should so brilliantly and deliberately destabilise the national head coach in a World Cup year is something no other sporting nation would consider.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Country

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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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• I have never seen anything like that before. He must have given his last three managers heart attacks. I like to see those sort of things - as long as they come from the other goalkeeper.

  Terry Venables

  Soccer, Football, Heart

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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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• 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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• There is something about Game 7 that there's a memory there for you for sure. You want to be a coach or a manager or a player or a goaltender that gets it done, because to me, that's all part of sports. That's what you dream about when you're a little kid - scoring the winning goal.

  Mike Babcock

  Sports, Dream, Memories

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• Managers all over the world will go crazy when their artists are not touting the party line and making things pretty in the way that they're supposed to, but it's different when your manager is your husband. It's contrary to your soul. That commercial interest presses in upon your whole personal life.

  Liz Garbus

  Husband, Crazy, Party

  Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 25, 2015.

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