Glenn Hoddle Quotes

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.

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.

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. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap.

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.

I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.

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.

He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.

I didn't say them things that I said.

You can never compare two players that are different, they're never going to be the same.

Michael Owen could be Sir Alex's best ever buy, even though he didn't buy him

Everton are now hitting the ropes running.

Arsenal haven't won anything for three years, so they're used to success

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction.

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.

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.

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!

You have to look at things that happened in your life and ask why. It comes around.

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.

There's not much who would have hit him [Fabio Capello] in the eye and made him put his hat on.

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.

When a player gets to 30, so does his body

The FA Cup is still domestically the best cup in the world.

United will break caution to the wind

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.

Your chest is different to your head.

There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game.

Chelsea are playing with much more refreshing ness

I think in international football you have to be able to handle the ball.

Tim Sherwood has come in, done very well and given us another string to the bow in a different type of way.

If anyone is found guilty, I will step on them.

Paul Scholes was the jewel in the crown, the first name on the teamsheet and unquestionably one of the finest England players of the age. He flourished at once in the international arena, which didn't surprise me given his fabulous all-round attributes. He had almost everything - talent, intelligence, courage. His only blemish, which he never really shook off, was his tackling. There was always the chance of that red mist coming down. Overall, though, Paul was a wonderful player and he's a lovely lad, a credit to his club and to himself.

International football is one clog further up the football ladder

Football's all about 90 minutes

It was a titanic effort.