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Football Quotes by Roy Hodgson

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Roy Hodgson points to the last five minutes of a match as the true test of a team, where confidence and quality matter. He notes that the Premier League’s intensity can sharpen players, and he reflects on the rarity of English managers building careers abroad.

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For goal-scorers and centre-forwards, confidence does play a big part.

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Systems win you nothing, and football players win you games.

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The important thing is to take each game as it comes.

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I have been in football a long time.

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Brazil is a fantastic football country.

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The main problem with English players has always been the price.

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We all saw it coming. Arsenal's youth policy has always been very good.

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I don't think there are many jobs that would have tempted me away from Fulham, to be perfectly honest.

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As far as I know, Fulham were never for sale during my time there. Mohamed Al Fayed never wanted to sell Fulham.

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Getting the balance right in everything is all of football and all of sport.

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I don't like talking about not getting what you deserve, because that has no part to play in football. You get what…

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I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

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I was so fully involved in football and building a career that I didn't spend nearly enough time with my son when…

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If success is about winning the league, there will always be 19 disappointed clubs.

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I am not only privileged to work for the FA and England: I have enjoyed working for the FA and England.

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In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking…

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If the be-all and end-all of your ability is, 'Have you got a trophy to your name,' I find that hard to…

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There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for…

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Why shouldn't Harry Kane take corners? If he happens to be the best striker of a ball in the team and gives…

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The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has…

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There might be more meetings and situations where you're required to represent the country in some way that wouldn't necessarily happen to…

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Anyone who watches football and watches Tottenham play would have to be an admirer of the way they play football and the…

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I think, increasingly, people will define success as staying in the League, being a stable Premier League club that treats its fans…

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I have been in football a long time, and Wayne Rooney has been in football a long time. He would regard me…

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It wasn't purely Alex Ferguson's experience that made him a good manager, because he did it when he was inexperienced. But if…

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A lot of young coaches who respect the fact I have been doing it a long time, that is often their question:…

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It's true that if it's always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you're a success,…

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I assisted Bobby Houghton at Halmstads, and we were both just under 30. We'd say, 'Wouldn't it be great to do this…

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The Premier League is what it is. Some people will see the intensity and quality as a great advantage for your players:…

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With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with…

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It hasn't always been a Premier League ride for Crystal Palace supporters. They're there to support us through the hard times.

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You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still…

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A lot of the players who've done so well aren't necessarily the big names: James Tomkins, Luka Milivojevic to name two.

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I am both proud and excited at the prospect of working as the Liverpool manager.

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The last thing you want as a striker is the opposing team putting all 10 players behind the ball.

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New faces, maybe perking up the squad and giving you another arrow to your bow - that can be a help.

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I don't think you sign a four-year contract in the Premier League and then go to China at the age of 26.

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I enjoyed Wembley like all the managers before me, and I would hope that games would still be played there by the…

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As far as I'm concerned, if you're only going to call managers who have won a trophy any good, then basically, you…

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I'm not prepared to make any comments on the World Cup in Qatar in 1922.

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I enjoyed Wembley like all the managers before me, and I would hope that games would still be played there by the England national…

You're as old as you feel.

To be frank, you can't compare the atmosphere and the way people behaved in the Olympic Stadium with the game I watched the day…

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do…

When you have been lucky enough to move up the ladder, all you see, really, is the slide back down. You don't see the…

There is a belief that getting any particular job may depend on who has just had five consecutive victories. If that's the way it…

I don't think you sign a four-year contract in the Premier League and then go to China at the age of 26.

I'm always disappointed when we lose, and it's happened quite a few times.

There might be more meetings and situations where you're required to represent the country in some way that wouldn't necessarily happen to you if…

The Premier League is what it is. Some people will see the intensity and quality as a great advantage for your players: it will…

For goal-scorers and centre-forwards, confidence does play a big part.

I have always promised myself and my wife that when I don't enjoy it anymore, or I can't handle the stress and the pressure…

People are entitled to say what they feel sometimes.

There aren't many English managers, I suppose, who've had the sort of career that I've had, outside the country. With the amount of money…

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement…