Walter Smith Quotes

United Kingdom, Association Football Player
February 24, 1948 – October, 26, 2021.

Walter Ferguson Smith, OBE (born 24 February 1948) is a Scottish football player, manager and director. He is primarily associated with his two spells in charge of Scottish club Rangers. A former defender, Smith's playing career consisted of two spells with Dundee United, split by a short time at Dumbarton. A pelvic injury meant he moved into coaching at Dundee United, working for manager Jim McLean, while he also took charge of the Scotland under-18 and under-21 teams.

Also known as Association Football Manager, Director

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

Walter Smith
- Team
- Winning
- Management
I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

Walter Smith
- People
- Attention
- Play

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.

Walter Smith
- Happy
- End
- Leaving
From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

Walter Smith
- People
- Work
- Hope
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

Walter Smith
- Think
- Thought
- Find
Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.

Walter Smith
- People
- Know
- Football
There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

Walter Smith
- People
- Life
- Football
Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Walter Smith
- God
- Down
- Looking