Glenn Hoddle Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.”
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“It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.”
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“The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.”
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“My saddest decision in football was leaving Paul Gascoigne out of the 1998 World Cup finals. But he wasn't fit enough and once that decision is made, as a manager and a group of players, you forget about who isn't there and focus on the job.”
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“No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.”
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“Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.”
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“If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!”
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“75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction..”
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“Michael Owen could be Sir Alex's best ever buy, even though he didn't buy him”
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“Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success”
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“Chelsea are playing with much more refreshing ness”
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“Everton are now hitting the ropes running.”
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“I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.”
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“He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.”
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“There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game.”
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“International football is one clog further up the football ladder”
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“When a player gets to 30, so does his body”
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“You have to look at things that happened in your life and ask why. It comes around.”
-- Glenn HoddleSource : "Explain yourself, FA tells Hoddle" by Jamie Wilson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 1999.
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“The karma is working from another lifetime.”
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“I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.”
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“If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job.”
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“He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.”
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“If anyone is found guilty, I will step on them.”
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“You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.”
-- Glenn HoddleSource : "Is Believing in God Irrational". Book by Amy Orr-Ewing, p.75, October 2, 2008.
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