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Anyone who watches football and watches Tottenham play would have to be an admirer of the way they play football and the way they go about their business.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Admirer
Watches
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Why shouldn't Harry Kane take corners? If he happens to be the best striker of a ball in the team and gives you the best delivery, why shouldn't he do it?
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Corners
Delivery
Harry
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I can get by quite well in Italian or German, though if the discussion got to a high level, I'd run out of vocabulary. I'm stronger in French and Swedish.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Discussion
High Level
Italian
Swedish
Vocabulary
German
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To be frank, you can't compare the atmosphere and the way people behaved in the Olympic Stadium with the game I watched the day after, the Community Shield.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Atmosphere
Compare
Frank
Behaved
Olympic
Shield
Stadium
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I think, increasingly, people will define success as staying in the League, being a stable Premier League club that treats its fans to good football every year.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Premier League
Stable
Staying
Treats
Define
Increasingly
Premier
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There is a belief that getting any particular job may depend on who has just had five consecutive victories. If that's the way it is, I've got a healthy attitude.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Consecutive
Depend
Victories
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Of course, any work you do as a sporting person, a football coach or any coach, if it is good work, you've got to have something - a championship - to show for it.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Championship
Football Coach
Good Work
Work Good Football
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Often, in a tournament, the players that get injured or suffer a lack of form are the guys at the cutting edge, the guys who make the difference or score the goals.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Cutting
Cutting Edge
Injured
Score
Edge
Suffer
Tournament
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I don't sit around wondering, 'Why am I here? Who made the stars?' I prefer to look at the stars and benefit from them rather than concern myself with how they got there.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Concern
Wondering
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Everywhere I've managed, I've left a platform for my successor to build on, and this is a great satisfaction for me, even if I don't necessarily get the recognition for it.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Left
Recognition
Satisfaction
Everywhere
Build
Great Me Satisfaction
Necessarily
Platform
Successor
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Getting that first foot on the rung of the ladder, that's where you find it easier to shrug off those times when your foot slips off, and you have to get yourself going again.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Slips
Yourself Your Find
Foot
Ladder
Rung
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Hugh Grant is about the only actor I've met who has taken any proper interest in football, being a big Fulham supporter. But he'd be far too good-looking to play me in any film.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Football
Interest
Supporter
Taken
Good-Looking
Grant
Hugh
Met
Proper
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I suffer during games. We follow the action, kicking every ball, wondering if our centre-backs can stop the cross... In some ways, you enjoy it, but your heart is always thumping.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Heart Always Your
Cross
Suffer
Wondering
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In an ideal world, the season would end, and the players would have two to three weeks by the beach. You'd have four to five weeks of preparation, and then you'd play the tournament.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Beach
Ideal World
Preparation
Ideal
Tournament
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All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don't go their way late in life as they did early in life.
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Managers
Befriend
Defeats
Suffer
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There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'
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Dream
Reading
Reality
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In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking in the shadows to bash you over the head when you least expect it.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Bash
Football
Lurking
Life Always Football
Doing
Expect
Life Your Always
Head
However
Over
Least
Well
Shadows
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The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.
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Patch
Rests
Scoring
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If the be-all and end-all of your ability is, 'Have you got a trophy to your name,' I find that hard to understand. It's so naive in terms of what the job of being a football coach is all about.
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Football Coach
End-All
Trophy
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I don't think there are many people out there - except, perhaps, the odd Twitter troll who knows no better - who believes that racially abusing people or threatening people is the right way to go.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Abuse
Odd
Right Way
Threatening
Better People Way
Believes
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What you've got to do in any coaching job, whether it is moving to Sweden as a young man - where being English gave you a slight advantage - or something else, you've got to win the players' respect.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Sweden
Slight
Something Else
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The one thing we have to remember about Fernando Torres is that he's a human being who has come in for an enormous amount of criticism, not least during the World Cup from people in Spain and around the world.
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Criticism
Enormous
Spain
World Cup
World Remember People
Cup
Fernando
The One Thing
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All you can do when you are given a chance to play for England is to go out against whoever that opponent may be and do it very well. And if you do that, you get yourself in the forefront of the manager's mind.
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Forefront
Manager
Opponent
Whoever
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I wouldn't mind a spotlight also focused on the crowd, because, I think, one of the things that made the Olympic Games for Great Britain was the incredible support within the stadia where the events took place.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Britain
Focused
Games
Great Britain
Olympic Games
Spotlight
Support
Olympic
Took
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I didn't realise I had a speech impediment until I came back to England. I spent the whole of my life working abroad, and no-one mentioned it. I came back to England and suddenly realised I had a speech impediment.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Abroad
Life My Life Back
Impediment
Mentioned
No-One
Realise
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There aren't many English managers, I suppose, who've had the sort of career that I've had, outside the country. With the amount of money that is going around in the Premier League, not many people are tempted to move abroad.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Managers
Premier League
Tempted
Abroad
Money People Country
Money Country People
Premier
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I think I like the artistry of the game. I still get a lot of pleasure watching the good-quality teams play, where the movements of the players are coordinated. It's almost ballet-like, although 'ballet-like' is a bit of an exaggeration.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Artistry
Exaggeration
Pleasure
Although
Coordinated
Movements
Teams
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There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for each other, make runs. But I also enjoy the other aspect: the pressing and how people work so hard to recover the ball.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Football Match
Interaction
Pressing
Recover
Runs
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I don't think anything's cruel - if you're so sensitive these days that you see cruelty everywhere, unfortunately every time a comedian comes on television, you're going to accuse him of cruelty, because that's the kind of humour that the English people enjoy.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Comedian
Humour
Sensitive
Accuse
Time People Anything
Cruel
English People
Time People Television
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There might be more meetings and situations where you're required to represent the country in some way that wouldn't necessarily happen to you if you're a club manager, but other than that, I haven't found any differences in my approach between running a club side and a national team.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Approach
Differences
Meetings
National Team
Represent
Manager
Necessarily
Required
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It wasn't purely Alex Ferguson's experience that made him a good manager, because he did it when he was inexperienced. But if you've got the qualities needed, and then you add experience to it, someone who's been through it, well, that has to be advantageous. There's no doubt about that.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Add
Alex
Ferguson
Good Manager
No Doubt
Inexperienced
Manager
Purely
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I think any manager who tells you, 'I am very good at keeping my equilibrium. I'm always calm and reasoned, and results don't affect me particularly. I can take the good with the bad, and I can put the wins and the losses in perspective,' you will find a special person. I've never met one.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Calm
Equilibrium
Perspective
Results
Special
Good Always Me
Good I Am Me
Good Always I Am
Affect
Particularly
Losses
Manager
Met
Special Person
Wins
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I have been in football a long time, and Wayne Rooney has been in football a long time. He would regard me as someone who is very false if I ever said to him, 'Your place is guaranteed.' He would not expect it, and I would be very upset anyway if anyone asked me to give them a guarantee of a place.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Regard
Upset
Wayne
Time Football Long
Time Football Me
False
Guarantee
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It's true that if it's always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you're a success, and if you don't, you're a failure, then you're bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren't many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven't.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Failure
Bedding
Championship
Coaches
World Cup
Success Failure World
Success Failure Always
True
Cup
Won
European
Thousands
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I have always promised myself and my wife that when I don't enjoy it anymore, or I can't handle the stress and the pressure that comes with having such a high-profile and top job - or my energy levels starts to fail me, or my enthusiasm starts to be dented - I won't prolong my career longer than I feel I should.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Enthusiasm
Handle
High Profile
Levels
Myself Always Me
Myself Wife Me
Prolong
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A lot of young coaches who respect the fact I have been doing it a long time, that is often their question: 'Does it get any easier? Can you relax more during the games? Can you take it all a little bit more philosophically and put it more in perspective?' The tragedy is that I have to tell them, 'No. If anything, it gets worse.'
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Coaches
Relax
Tragedy
Time Respect Long
Philosophically
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The Premier League is what it is. Some people will see the intensity and quality as a great advantage for your players: it will make them better. Some will see it as a disadvantage because the players play at such a high level and such intensity, it's difficult for them to drum that up, that intensity, with a very short space of rest time.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Quality
Advantage
High Level
Intensity
League
Premier League
Time Space Great
Disadvantage
Drum
Short
Rest
Space Time Great
Great Advantage
Premier
Short Space
Some People
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I assisted Bobby Houghton at Halmstads, and we were both just under 30. We'd say, 'Wouldn't it be great to do this for maybe 10 years, save a little money, then perhaps start a little business together.' Some sort of travel agency. We had no football thoughts beyond that, other than maybe combining it with a bit of sport, getting a few tours going.
Roy Hodgson / Soccer Player
Travel
Agency
Combining
Football
Little Money
Business Money Great
Assisted
Bit
Beyond
Bobby
Tours
Sport
Few
Maybe
Perhaps
Save
Thoughts
Start
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