Graham Taylor famous quotes

03-23-2025

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.
-- Graham Taylor

#Soccer #Ideas #Life Is Like
If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.
-- Graham Taylor

#Football
You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.
-- Graham Taylor

#Sports #Community #Germany
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.
-- Graham Taylor

#Football #Player #Games
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.
-- Graham Taylor

#Football #Player #Games
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.
-- Graham Taylor

#Football #Games #Smell
Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.
-- Graham Taylor

#World #Cups #England
Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.
-- Graham Taylor

#Thinking #Luck #Lucky
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 Taylor

#Football #Wall #Machines
The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager
-- Graham Taylor

#Ambition #England #Should
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
We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing
-- Graham Taylor

#World #Cups #Blame
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.
-- Graham Taylor

#Sound #Goes On #Want
Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.
-- Graham Taylor

#Football #Thinking #Roots
Is he ever going to learn?
-- Graham Taylor

#Soccer #Football
I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.
-- Graham Taylor

#Football #Coward
Footballers are no different from human beings.
-- Graham Taylor

#Football #Different #Footballer
Very few great goals actually go in.
-- Graham Taylor

#Football #Goal
There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."
-- Graham Taylor

#Football #Squares #Balls
People always remember the second half.
-- Graham Taylor

#Soccer #People #Half
Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.
-- Graham Taylor

#Soccer #Shearer
It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.
-- Graham Taylor

#Soccer #Way #Results
To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.
-- Graham Taylor

#Heart #Bars #Body
In football, time and space are the same thing.
-- Graham Taylor

#Football #Space #Time And Space
He's a player you only miss when he's not playing
-- Graham Taylor

#Inspiration #Player #Missing
Carlos Tevez's English should be better than what it is
-- Graham Taylor

#Should

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