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Sam Allardyce

(1954) Association Football Player

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Sam Allardyce is an association football player, best known for Big Sam.

Quick Facts About Sam Allardyce

Born: October 19, 1954
Profession: Association Football Player
Notable works: Big Sam

About Sam Allardyce

He began his playing career in 1969 with Bolton Wanderers after moving from Dudley Town, helping Bolton win the Second Division title in 1977–78. During the 1980s he played for clubs including Sunderland, Millwall, Tampa Bay Rowdies, Coventry City, Huddersfield Town, Preston North End and West Bromwich Albion, and helped Preston gain promotion from the Fourth Division in 1986–87.

Quotes by Sam Allardyce · Page 2

As a manager, you look at who is going to get the fans on the edge of the seats.

Edge

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Hopefully Andy Carroll has only tweeted his hamstring.

Football

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Believe me, I look back on West Ham in a good way.

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I always like working with young people, it keeps you young.

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I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more...

Coach

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We've got the greatest Premier League, greatest domestic competition in the world but the downside of that is we've got fewer and…

Competition

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You have to try to win the ball at all costs and if someone doesn't get it quite right people get injured.

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Teams with limited budgets will always find times tough and results won't always go your way.

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A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the…

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Expectation builds the one thing you must have when you get to a new stadium when it's built, which is a winning…

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There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist

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It's great having the best league in the world, no doubt about that, but the downside of that is the national team…

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It is very important to me to communicate with the fans and not hide what's going on behind the scenes.

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There is a lot of pressure at first when you first take over a club that's struggling but you want to go…

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When will the first manager manage at a professional level having learned his trade on 'FIFA 16,' '17,' or '18?' I've watched…

Football

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Now astronomical wages are making it very difficult to take somebody who might not even have a transfer fee attached to them,…

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Your cruciate ligament, like many long-term injuries... when they come back they're expected to be what they were before the injury. While…

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There's always that time in football where people say that when you have the dip, it's how well do you overcome it.…

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Whoever you are playing and whatever you are playing against you have to weigh up tactically how you approach that game. That…

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Football today means players stay less now than ever before and you have to accept that. As a manager, a big part…

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People seem to expect when that happens, for players to be brought in that are so much better than the ones that…

Beginning

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I think that the problem for any player you want to select for England, not just in isolation, is that it'll be…

England

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It's always a good time to play against a team when they come back from Europe, whether it's the Europa League or…

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Everybody thinks they can do my job better than me, they always feel you've got to throw caution to the wind and…

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The more goals you concede ultimately results in the bottom three, not the more goals you score.

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I'm hardened over many years. You toughen yourself for whatever job. You either take the good with the bad or don't bother.

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The only decisions I'm making at the moment are whether I have tea, coffee, toast or cornflakes in the morning.

Coffee

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If I got sacked because my results weren't good enough at Everton, I accept it, but getting sacked when they finish eighth,…

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I had four great years at West Ham. People will always refer to the difficulties at certain times, but you get those…

Difficulties

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I am not a great sleeper, so 30 minutes of meditation, they say in research, is as good as two or three…

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The England team shouldn't be picked on whichever players are in the Premier League when you've got a Premier League player playing…

Championship

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Have transfer prices in England surprised me? No. Are the prices over-inflated? Yes. But there is no surprise now.

England

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Football is to be enjoyed and I've enjoyed my life in football for many years, it's the pinnacle of my career and…

Career

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My model is much deeper than looking after players. My model is understanding the industry, working within it.

Industry

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My parents are from Scotland and my sister and brother were both born in Scotland so my heritage is from there.

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I believe first of all it's always a disappointment to lose the players at an important moment of the season.

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Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.

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In adversity you have to become stronger and make sure you don't make those mistakes again so you learn from it.

Adversity

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The satisfaction for me is that when you leave somewhere you look at what you are leaving and I know I left…

Football

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I have a great amount of enthusiasm, and I am a man who knows how to do this job inside out because…

Enthusiasm

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