Quotes by Jaap Stam - Page 1

I want to reach something with a team and go to the highest level.
Jaap Stam /
Team
Go Something Want
Highest Level
Reach
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I admit to becoming frustrated by the frequency of diving in the Champions League.
Jaap Stam /
Champions League
Diving
Frequency
Frustrated
Champions
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As a manager, you need to have your own vision and what you want to do with the team.
Jaap Stam /
Team
Vision
Your Own Need
Manager
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I have a reputation and name myself, everyone knows that. But I believe in myself as well.
Jaap Stam /
Reputation
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I have always been a Manchester United supporter since I was a child, so that won't change.
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Manchester
Manchester United
Supporter
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I was actually quite small when I was young. No one believes me now, but I have pictures at home.
Jaap Stam /
Believes
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It was a great time working at Reading, especially the first season getting very close to going to the Premier League.
Jaap Stam /
League
Premier League
Reading
Close
Great Time
Premier
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Players from Holland and Scandinavia aren't divers, but those from Spain and Italy go down far too easily for my liking.
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Holland
Spain
Easily
Divers
Italy
Liking
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I hope to work sometime for an absolute top club. It should be no surprise that Manchester United are a dream club for me.
Jaap Stam /
Manchester
Manchester United
Surprise
Absolute
Work Hope Me
Sometime
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I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn't think I wanted to become a pro.
Jaap Stam /
Pro
Professional Football
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Of course, when you play football yourself you can think you want to become a manager but it does not make you a good manager.
Jaap Stam /
Good Manager
Manager
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I'm sure I can work the Premier League, maybe my style of play is better suited to the Premier League than in the Championship.
Jaap Stam /
Championship
Premier League
Work Better I Can
Premier
Suited
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Yes, I am just a type who likes to watch the cat out of the tree. I want to start quietly, and then always build, always go higher.
Jaap Stam /
Cat
Higher
Likes
Tree
Type
Start Always I Am
Quietly
Yes
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I had my own youth. I had fun playing in the amateurs, going out with my friends on the weekend, drinking a beer, that sort of thing.
Jaap Stam /
Beer
Drinking
Youth
Amateur
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When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from the Scottish language!
Jaap Stam /
Holland
Scottish
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It's tricky for me to take a dive, though. If I fall down under the slightest kick, I'm going to look stupid falling down like I've been shot.
Jaap Stam /
Fall
Stupid
Tricky
Shot
Stupid Me Look
Dive
Falling
Stupid Look Me
Slightest
Though
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Far too often English players seem determined to keep running after getting a whack on the leg, even though the chance to get a shot in has gone.
Jaap Stam /
Determined
Leg
Whack
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Because at the end of the day, it's the most important thing that you do well, that you achieve goals that you want to achieve and where you want to go to as a club.
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Achieve
Club
End Of The Day
Important Thing
End Of The Day Goals Day
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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It's not always the player that's talking in the dressing room that becomes a good manager. It's a feeling that you need to develop, it's a feeling that needs to grow on you.
Jaap Stam /
Good Manager
Dressing
Dressing Room
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It's football, you work with humans and humans make mistakes. We will do everything in our power to prepare the players so they know to make the right decision at the right times.
Jaap Stam /
Right Decision
Prepare
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I've been with clubs who won the league championships in Holland and England, which was brilliant, and to win the Champions League with Manchester United was an amazing experience.
Jaap Stam /
Brilliant
Champions League
Clubs
England
Holland
League
Manchester
Manchester United
Amazing Experience
Champions
Won
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I think that's one of the most important thing for a player to have - to have goals for yourself, that you want to make steps, that you want to improve yourself, that you want to go the highest level.
Jaap Stam /
Steps
Highest Level
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For me, a late start was a good thing. A lot of kids who start too early get bored. I'd done all the things I wanted to do, I'd enjoyed myself, having fun and playing as an amateur and that was important.
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Bored
Having Fun
Good Myself Me
Good Myself Start
Good Thing
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If I hadn't made it as a footballer I would have been an electrician. I studied to be an electrician even though I was progressing at football because you never know at that stage if you are going to be there for sure.
Jaap Stam /
Electrician
Football
Stage
Studied
Progressing
Though
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In Holland you go into amateur teams, come up through the ranks and are generally spotted for senior or professional football. At 16, I had made it into a men's amateur team, and was picked up professionally from there.
Jaap Stam /
Holland
Senior
Picked
Professional Football
Professionally
Ranks
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It is important for me to believe in a team that has ambition. I want to go up and work towards something. I don't want to work in the grey areas and say it is nice to end up 10th or 11th and keep on doing that every year.
Jaap Stam /
Grey
Work Believe Me
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In Serie A players have to stay in a hotel before a home game to ensure proper preparations without the distractions a wife and family can bring. It's a system which no doubt suits some players, but would not be my choice.
Jaap Stam /
Family
Home
Doubt
Hotel
No Doubt
Family Home Wife
Game
Before
Bring
Choice
Stay
Distractions
Ensure
Preparations
Some
Proper
System
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I don't regret writing my book at all. I wrote it for the United supporters to give them a proper insight into what it is like inside the club, and what it is like to be a Manchester United player. I think I did that in an honest way.
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Insight
Manchester
Manchester United
Regret
Proper
Supporters
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I just played football from an early age and didn't get involved in any other sports. We had tennis, cycling, ice skating - I'd like to have skated more, because it's so physical. Ten minutes on the ice and you really feel it in your back.
Jaap Stam /
Cycling
Ice
Early Age
Skated
Ten Minutes
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As a defender it can also be more frustrating to play in Italy because referees do not tolerate too much physical contact. I loved the physical nature of the game in England, but in Serie A I only have to look at a player and they sometimes fall to the floor!
Jaap Stam /
Contact
England
Frustrating
Tolerate
Defender
Floor
Italy
Physical
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It sounds strange, maybe, because I have played with a lot of big players but I never thought: 'OK, they're going to go into management.' Maybe there was only one, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, because he was always talking about football but I did not have a feeling with the other players.
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Management
Ole
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All of Europe's biggest clubs place the Champions' League as their top priority these days but only one of us can lift the trophy. The domestic league titles are still crucial of course, but I think most players will tell you the Champions' League is the one they want to win most of all.
Jaap Stam /
Champions League
Clubs
Crucial
Europe
League
Titles
Biggest
Days
Champions
Course
Domestic
Players
Lift
Priority
Tell
Top
Trophy
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Look, when I was working on a project at school, I had the urge to do that well. And if I'm fixing something up at home or whatever, making something, I want to do that well too. If I'm hanging a lamp and it doesn't work, nobody can talk to me for an hour, almost. And with football I have that urge and that will to win. With all sports.
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Fixing
Lamp
Urge
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