Best football & managers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.”

Years Levels Football Involved Clubs Managers Decent Celtic

“The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.”

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Author:Gordon Strachan

“I just think to be a manager you've got to live and breathe and have this incredible enthusiasm for football, the whole thing. And while I love the game, and it's been a large part of my life, it's not the only thing in my life.”

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Author:Gary Lineker

“The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.”

“The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.”

Jobs Football England Managers Very Happy

Author:Gerard Houllier

“John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.”

Names Wife Football My Wife Managers Upset Private Life

Author:Malcolm Allison

“All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division”

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Author:Ron Atkinson

“I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.”

Ifs Asks Lost Football London Impression Managers Soccer Ask Me Islands Fancy Chairman Englishmen Living On Arsenal Sightseeing

Author:Arsene Wenger

“A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.”

Way Play Running Football Fingers Best Way Managers Soccer Piano Chairman Footballer Pianist Push Ups

Author:Jose Mourinho

“I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.”

Ifs Needs Reason Football Losing Managers Soccer Temper Chairman

Author:Alex Ferguson

“England can end the millenium as it started - as the greatest football nation in the world.”

World Ends Nations Football England Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Kevin Keegan

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

Thinking Cutting Football Managers Soccer Chairman Ponytails

Author:Arsene Wenger

“Work on your strong points because they are what made you.”

Made Strong Football Managers Soccer Chairman Your Strong

Author:Arsene Wenger

“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.”

Years Winning Player Football England Competition Managers Soccer Thirty Chairman Thirty Years

Author:Arsene Wenger

“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.”

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Author:Arsene Wenger

“It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?”

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Author:Arsene Wenger

“The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.”

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Author:Arsene Wenger

“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.”

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Author:Arsene Wenger

“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.”

Want Body Law Perfect Nice Team Football Son Materials Managers Soccer Bully Chairman In-laws Want Him Too Nice Son-in-law

Author:Graeme Souness

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

Enough Player Football Right Now Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Roy Keane

“The last time I was charged by the FA they had a murder lawyer in against me, so it's going to be a hard case to win.”

Hard Lasts Winning Cases Football Murder Lawyer Managers Soccer Last Time Chairman

Author:Roy Keane

“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.”

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Author:Marcello Lippi

“I'm-A-God-Look-At-Me.”

Looks Football Managers Soccer Look At Me Chairman

Author:Alex Ferguson

“Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.”

Problem Football Bigger Managers Soccer Injury Chairman Acne Bigger Problems

Author:Brian Clough

“Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.”

Doe Wanted Chance Football Judgment Saved Welcome Managers Soccer Saturday Chairman Judgment Day

Author:Brian Clough

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

Want Play Three Winning Goal United Football Managers Soccer Chairman Not Happy Manchester Arsenal Best Football Manchester United

Author:Chris Coleman

“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.”

“I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started.”

Giving Wanted Games Player Advice Football Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Ron Atkinson

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

Two Found Fronts Football Balls Managers Soccer Chairman Radar

Author:Joe Royle

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

Names Football Managers Soccer Ireland Chairman Northern Ireland

Author:Lawrie Sanchez

“We live for games like these.”

Games Football Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Alex McLeish

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

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Author:Mick McCarthy

“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'.”

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Author:Ken Bates

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

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Author:Ken Bates

“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!”

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Author:Delia Smith

“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.”

Needs Giving Sides Black White Common Brain Player Team Football Balance Skills Clubs Common Sense Managers Soccer Chairman Flair

Author:Ron Noades

“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.”

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Author:Ron Atkinson

“Stress is when you're 29 years old, playing for Rochdale, with an expiring contract and a mortgage to pay.”

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Author:John Gregory

“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.”

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

Football Managers Soccer Santa Chairman

Author:Sam Allardyce

“Nine months of misery.”

Football Months Misery Nine Managers Soccer Chairman Nine Months

Author:Steve Coppell

“I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.”

Remember President Football Shots Managers Soccer Chairman Brian President Kennedy

Author:Neil Warnock

“I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.”

Stills Football England Managers Soccer Realising Chairman

Author:Kevin Bond

“A terrific game, even on the losing side I could enjoy it.”

Games Enjoy Sides Football Losing Managers Soccer Terrific Chairman

Author:Nigel Worthington

“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.”

I Can Remember Certain Bits Sound Five Football Amount Luck Credit Managers Soccer Afternoon Ireland Chairman Kevin Pints Guinness

Author:Steve Coppell

“I will have to make tactical decisions, technical decisions and emotional decisions. This time it was a tactical one.”

Decision Emotional Football Managers Soccer Chairman Tactical

Author:Tony Adams

“I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.”

Said Today Lasts Winning Tree Week Football Ugly Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Terry Butcher

“On current form, both teams will probably lose.”

Form Loses Team Football Currents Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Aidy Boothroyd

“He's not fit, either physically or biomechanically.”

Football Fit Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Aidy Boothroyd

“Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.”

Games Winning Player Football Losing Managers Soccer Chairman Formation

Author:Gordon Strachan

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