Alan Hansen Quotes
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I think there’s a lot of coloured players in all the major teams and there are lots of coloured players who are probably the best in the Premier League. If you look at 25 or 30 years ago it was probably in a bad way – not as bad as some of the other nations on the Continent – but certainly there is always, always room for improvement.
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He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.
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I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.
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I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.
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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.
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When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.
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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.
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I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.
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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.
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I think Chelsea is better placed than any team in the history of the game.
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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.
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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.
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The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.
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I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.
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If the sheriff is cutting the program on drug testing, why are we approving a contract to show videos to inmates?
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In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
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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!
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Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.
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People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.
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Scottish football has been in the doldrums for a long time and it has been a timely boost Walter coming in and following it up with the result against the Italians.
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Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.
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Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.
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The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
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The media want the stories and the television companies want the stories and the papers want the story and means that it is everyday.