Graham Taylor quotes
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“Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.”
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“If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.”
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“You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.”
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“In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.”
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“In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.”
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“The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.”
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“Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.”
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“Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.”
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“Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.”
-- Graham TaylorSource : 1983 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).
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“The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager”
-- Graham TaylorSource : "Bobby Gould, Paul Merson, Alan Brazil, and Jamie Redknapp star in our Daft Quotes Of The Year". www.mirror.co.uk. December 19, 2009.
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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.”
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“We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing”
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“I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.”
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“Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.”
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“I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.”
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“Footballers are no different from human beings.”
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“There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."”
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“Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.”
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“It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.”
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“To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.”
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“In football, time and space are the same thing.”
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“He's a player you only miss when he's not playing”
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“Carlos Tevez's English should be better than what it is”
-- Graham Taylor
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