Glenn Hoddle famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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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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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You have to look at things that happened in your life and ask why. It comes around.
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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 Hoddle
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