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When you have seven grandchildren and you've been around them a while, they soften you up. But there's still that little streak in me that if I need to make sure something has to be done, then it gets done.
Tony Pulis
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Football Manager
Grandchildren
Streak
Soften
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And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.
John Sheridan
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Football Manager
Evolution
Ideas
Tree
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Players can play bad, and certainly when you have only three days or six days training sessions in your legs, and you have to play 45 minutes. Everybody can say that it's easy to step in, but it is not easy.
Louis Van Gaal
/
Football Manager
Legs
Six Days
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There are massive clubs with massive amounts of money, and Liverpool were always a little bit behind. But if you create a good team, a good atmosphere, and work hard, you can get there. You can win trophies.
Rafael Benitez
/
Football Manager
Atmosphere
Clubs
Liverpool
Massive
Trophies
Work Good Money
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It's difficult in your life when both parents pass so quickly and you're not really that old when they move on. There is a big gap in your life. There's a hole. You learn to live with it but never forget it.
Sam Allardyce
/
Football Manager
Never Forget
Gap
Hole
Move On
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Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.
Jurgen Klopp
/
Football Manager
Player
Strong
Tennis
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I always say it must not be an obsession to win the Champions League. It's a very important title and beautiful to do it. But you must not try to win the Champions League and lose focus on the Premier League.
Manuel Pellegrini
/
Football Manager
Champions League
Obsession
Premier League
Champions
Premier
Title
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I can't replicate how I feel when that whistle goes on nights like that, knowing you've won it, that people are going home smiling. You don't get that sat on my tractor in Plymouth or doing the shop in Tesco.
Neil Warnock
/
Football Manager
Going Home
Plymouth
Replicate
Sat
Home People Feel
Nights
Whistle
Shop
Smiling
Tractor
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A lot has been written about my age and my injuries. A lot of people think I'm going to be 94. I'm actually 34 and I feel quite good. I'm sure the fans will judge me on what I do on the pitch, not what I say.
Roy Keane
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Football Manager
Judging
People
Thinking
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My decision was that after nearly three years at Celtic - with everything we'd achieved and the success we'd had on the pitch, the improvements off the pitch - then it was time to move on to my next challenge.
Brendan Rodgers
/
Football Manager
Celtic
Achieved
Move On
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I think retrospective viewing of diving is nearly more important than some of the technology they are on about bringing in. If you do that and players get banned, it wouldn't take long before you'd cut it out.
David Moyes
/
Football Manager
Technology
Banned
Diving
Retrospective
Bringing
Nearly
Cut
Viewing
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Ajax have a set model, a defined youth programme - Barcelona have one too, and Juventus. And Atletico Madrid do too. Real Madrid don't - because they alternate developing their own players with signing talent.
Diego Simeone
/
Football Manager
Barcelona
Defined
Madrid
Real Madrid
Signing
Alternate
Atletico
Programme
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If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.
Franz Beckenbauer
/
Football Manager
Eastern
Germany
Cent
Developments
Per
Middle Eastern
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To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.
Gerard Houllier
/
Football Manager
Player
Team
Winning
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This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar...in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
/
Football Manager
Football
Player
Soccer
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Who's been with me longest? Kevin Blackwell. I signed him as a goalkeeper at Scarborough in '86 and he's basically been with me my whole career. He's been my goalkeeper, reserve goalie, now my assistant manager.
Neil Warnock
/
Football Manager
Assistant
Goalkeeper
Longest
Reserve
Signed
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I'm never quite sure how far to go with praising young kids because the next thing you will see him probably driving a Mercedes and he'll have his socks over his knees and four earrings in and a Walt Disney hat.
Paul Lambert
/
Football Manager
Kids
Four
Knees
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With Chelsea, the job was this: move up to the top, get into Europe. And I did that - fourth place in the Premier League and then into the Champions League, the season before Abramovich and all the money arrived.
Claudio Ranieri
/
Football Manager
Champions League
Chelsea
Fourth
Premier League
Arrived
Champions
Premier
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Football has always been in my blood. It's more than just an occupation, but as you get a little bit older and wiser, you want to be able to pick and choose and make sure you get the right club at the right time.
David Moyes
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Football Manager
Occupation
Wiser
Time Football Always
Pick And Choose
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You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.
Harry Redknapp
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Football Manager
Owners
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If you're a burglar, it's no good waiting about outside somebody's house, looking good with your swag bag ready. Just get in there, burgle them and come out. I don't advocate that obviously, it's just an analogy.
Ian Holloway
/
Football Manager
House
Swag
Waiting
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The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There's five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.
Jurgen Klopp
/
Football Manager
Clubs
Difficult
Disappointed
Five
League
Middle
Premier League
Seven
Six
Champions
Win
Premier
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I know I'm more on television, and I'm more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.
Jurgen Klopp
/
Football Manager
Funny Things
Funny Time Face
Recognisable
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Older readers will remember there used to be matches on Christmas Day. I remember leaving the fireside and the presents to watch matches on the day as a boy but such matches were rare by the time I began playing.
Neil Warnock
/
Football Manager
Christmas
Christmas Day
Leaving
Time Day Remember
Time Christmas Remember
Began
Rare
By The Time
Matches
Presents
Readers
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I was player-manager at Sheffield United. I played my last ever game for them. It was terrible. We lost 4-1, I think to Sunderland. Fancy that, a Geordie, being forced to retire because of a defeat to Sunderland.
Steve Bruce
/
Football Manager
Defeat
Fancy
Sheffield
Retire
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I first reported to our Marlins spring training complex in Jupiter as well as the other draft picks to receive physicals and to sign contracts. From there I flew to Jamestown, NY to play for the Jamestown Jammers.
Graham Taylor
/
Football Manager
Play
Spring
Training
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Robert Lewandowski is a player who plays in front of the opposing goal, especially with his back to the opponent. He is always attacked, and this is one of the big strength of a striker who plays in this position.
Jupp Heynckes
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Football Manager
Attacked
Opponent
Robert
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Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United - on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji's best role.
Jurgen Klopp
/
Football Manager
Manchester
Manchester United
Tears
Breaks
Central
Midfield
Wing
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When I was younger I was a nightmare. I let people down. I resigned from Sheffield United because things were promised to me that weren't forthcoming. I let people down when I was younger, certainly in management.
Steve Bruce
/
Football Manager
Forthcoming
Management
Nightmare
Resigned
Sheffield
Me People Down
Promised
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I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.
Carlo Ancelotti
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Football Manager
Convince
Six
Training
Impose
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One of the reasons why I wanted to be part of the League Managers Association was because I felt there were an awful lot of foreign coaches coming into these shores, but we were not exporting enough British talent.
David Moyes
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Football Manager
Association
British
Coaches
Exporting
League
Managers
Talent
Awful Lot
Coming
Reasons
Shores
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My mum and dad never went abroad for a holiday. My dad was overseas in the war but never thought about going anywhere like the Mediterranean after that, so my mum died without ever having been on a plane or abroad.
Harry Redknapp
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Football Manager
Holiday
Abroad
Mediterranean
Plane
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It is hard to categorise every accolade you have won. Getting into the Hall of Fame is great. It is fantastic to be recognised by your own country. To be part of the history of our national game is simply humbling.
Paul Lambert
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Football Manager
Humbling
History Great Game
Recognised
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The type of football I played at Everton, the fans said it wasn't good enough and I would say the same - I knew it wasn't good enough for Everton - but I knew I had to get them in the position where they were safe.
Sam Allardyce
/
Football Manager
Everton
Position
Safe
Type
Good Enough Football
Good Football Fans
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I can remember being at Gillingham playing in the fourth division ringing up other people I knew at clubs to see what team they would play, if they had injuries. Or you would ring a press man you knew in that area.
Tony Pulis
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Football Manager
Fourth
Injuries
Ringing
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I've got four women in my house - my wife and my three daughters - and I tell you what, it's pretty scary. I keep my head down and if we're out shopping I try and look in a man's shop while they make their minds up.
Ian Holloway
/
Football Manager
Daughter
Men
Shopping
Wife
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When you play sports like tennis, you're alone, and that's a good school for life, but it's also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too - helping others in difficult moments.
Jurgen Klopp
/
Football Manager
Alone
Sports
Difficult
Helping
Moments
School
Tennis
Life Best Good
Life Alone Best
Bring
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There's always going to be a time when there's a difficult period and my responsibility is to manage the players through that. You have to make sure you bring stability back to the club and get where you want to be.
Sam Allardyce
/
Football Manager
Manage
Stability
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I spent seven years with Jose and we were part of a very good technical staff. We went to top class clubs at Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan and worked with top players who gave us such a tremendous volume of success.
Andre Villas-Boas
/
Football Manager
Chelsea
Clubs
Milan
Staff
Volume
Tremendous
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Status does not matter. It is what you are like as a player. It doesn't matter how much money you have come for. That doesn't matter to me. I will play a 17-year-old if he fights and he has quality. It is quite easy.
Brendan Rodgers
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Football Manager
Fighting
Player
Years
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It is with passion that I love my job. But it is with character that I am able to keep looking forward. Not just beyond criticism or bad results, but also beyond the good moments, too. Everything has to be a balance.
Claudio Ranieri
/
Football Manager
Able
Balance
Character
Criticism
Good Moments
Looking Forward
Moments
Passion
Job
Love Good I Am
Looking
Love Good Character
Beyond
Forward
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If you ask me how did I do at United, I will say it was my best year ever, given the circumstances I was working under. We played football that was quite alright. But it's not football that is appreciated in England.
Louis Van Gaal
/
Football Manager
Alright
Appreciated
Best Football Me
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Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team - that goes to show how highly I have always rated him. An all-round midfielder who possesses quality and character in abundance.
Marcello Lippi
/
Football Manager
Character
Choices
Team
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If I was managing Chelsea, people wouldn't be saying Paul Jewell was a nice guy, they would be saying I had too much money to spend. On balance, I would quite like it at the end of the season if people don't like us.
Paul Jewell
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Football Manager
Guy
Nice
People
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There are good players in Europe and all the way around the world, but better than Torres - no. I would not want to swap Fernando with anyone else in the world, because he is my player, and I'm very pleased with him.
Rafael Benitez
/
Football Manager
Good World Better
Anyone Else
Good Better World
Fernando
Pleased
Swap
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I never thought I'd be in a position like I was at Aston Villa where people weren't going to get paid on a Friday. That's how bad it was. It looks great from the outside but we had huge financial problems for months.
Steve Bruce
/
Football Manager
Friday
Villa
Great Problems People
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It's a great honour to be asked to be the next manager of Manchester United. I am delighted that Sir Alex saw fit to recommend me for the job. I have great respect for everything he has done and for the football club.
David Moyes
/
Football Manager
Jobs
Alex
Football
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I love the way the Cardiff fans get behind their team, which is why I do that clenched fist action at the end of games. They get really up for the match, I can hear them and I just help offer my own support in return.
Neil Warnock
/
Football Manager
Fist
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The North East is a tough, working-class area. Its people boast great humour. But for two days every year, when Newcastle and Sunderland play football, it's absolute chaos. And very nasty. It borders on tribal hatred.
Steve Bruce
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Football Manager
Boast
Borders
Chaos
Humour
Nasty
Newcastle
Working Class
Great Football People
Play Football
Tribal
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Call me old fashioned, but we're now holding umbrellas up as our players get off a plane. Do they need that? It's a few spots of rain. OK, they might get wet. Well, let them get wet. That's what happens when it rains.
Steve Bruce
/
Football Manager
Rain
Spots
Wet
Holding
Plane
Rains
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