Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played. "

Alan Hansen

People

Win

Saying

Related Quotes:

" I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup. "

" I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club. "

" Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary. "

" I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment. "

" Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again. "

Alan Hansen

City

Been

" The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it! "

" I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious. "

" He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing. "

Alan Hansen

About

Missing

" The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more. "

" I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent. "

" We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that! "

" I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it. "

" The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team. "

" I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else. "

" It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be. "

Alan Hansen

Fans

Ambition

" These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day. "

" People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver. "

" I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams. "

" The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are. "

" Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out. "

" I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go. "

" Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season. "

" What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch. "

" When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy. "