Glenn Hoddle famous quotes

04-18-2025

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.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Running #Jobs #Second Chance
United will break caution to the wind
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Wind #Break #Caution
It was a titanic effort.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Soccer #Football #Effort
Football's all about 90 minutes
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Soccer #Football #Funny Soccer
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.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Country #Rome #Years
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.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Football #Team #Winning
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.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Football #Jobs #Player
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.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#People #World #Behind The Scenes
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.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Mean #Player #Years
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!
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Player #Feelings #Tin
75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction..
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Fiction #Life Is
Michael Owen could be Sir Alex's best ever buy, even though he didn't buy him
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Alex #Best Ever
Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Years #Three #Used
Chelsea are playing with much more refreshing ness
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Refreshing
Everton are now hitting the ropes running.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Running #Hitting #Rope
I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Football #Thinking #Balls
He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Soccer #Goal #Natural
I didn't say them things that I said.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Football #Said
There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Football #Games #Throwing
International football is one clog further up the football ladder
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Football #Ladders
When a player gets to 30, so does his body
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Player #Doe #Body
You have to look at things that happened in your life and ask why. It comes around.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Looks
The karma is working from another lifetime.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Karma #Lifetime
I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Numbers #Giving #Different
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.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Football #Jobs #People
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.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Soccer #Player #Years
If anyone is found guilty, I will step on them.
-- Glenn Hoddle

#Steps #Guilty #Found
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 Hoddle

#Karma #Two #Hands

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