Alan Hansen Quotes
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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 second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)
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I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!
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The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.
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If you come up and are struggling after three months you need the money to be able to buy somebody who can give you a bit of impetus.
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Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
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I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
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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.
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I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.
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What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.
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These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.
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Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.
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I've watched the current squad three or four times and I think that survival will be the first aim, but Keegan has got this way about him.
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Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.
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You'll never win anything with kids.
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It's 14 years since I left the club and that first-half performance was the worst I've seen since. It was devoid of quality, devoid of ideas, and worst of all, devoid of fight.
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Andy Gray is a great pundit and a great co-commentator. I couldn't co-commentate for love nor money. I've tried but I just can't do it, so as an all-rounder I'd say Andy's much better than I am.
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Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.
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I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it.
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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.
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When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.
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Links, I just can't talk about it right now.
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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!
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Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.