Graham Taylor famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
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The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager
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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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