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Sven-Goran Eriksson

(1948–2024) Association Football Player

112 quotes in 384 categories

My private life has absolutely nothing to do with my football. The Premier League is tougher than any other league, and even a good coach can lose a game or pick the wrong player. When mistakes happen, the right spirit is to own them honestly and keep moving forward.

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Sven-Goran Eriksson was an association football player.

Quick Facts About Sven-Goran Eriksson

Born: February 5, 1948
Died: August 26, 2024
Profession: Association Football Player

About Sven-Goran Eriksson

Swedish football manager (1948–2024)... | Sven-Göran Eriksson was a Swedish football player and manager. After a playing career as a right-back, Eriksson went on to experience major success in club management between 1977 and 2001, winning 18 trophies with a variety of league clubs in Sweden, Portugal, and Italy. In European competition, he

Quotes by Sven-Goran Eriksson

I've always been a Liverpool fan.

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I always treated my players like men.

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Football is beautiful and cruel.

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Beautiful

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I like challenges, yes.

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Challenge

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Maybe I trust people too much.

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China is beautiful.

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Beautiful

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Ranieri won the Premier League and no one would've expected that.

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Football

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My private life was not very private in England.

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England

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You don't give Capello advice. Capello's a better talker than listener.

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Advice

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My private life has absolutely nothing to do with my football.

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Football

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As a football man, I always want the best team.

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No woman was good enough for me, according to my mother.

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David Beckham deserves all the respect you can give to him.

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My private life, I prefer to have that private.

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Life

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You know if you go far in the World Cup you are away for almost two months and I think it's against…

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Serie A was the best league in the world when Roma offered me the job of manager in 1984.

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The only way I will leave this job will be because of results. I'm too stubborn to quit because of criticism -…

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Criticism

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I've always said Crouch is special. He's tall and that makes him special but he is special because he has good feet…

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Football is important, football is my life, I love it but life is more important than football.

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You don't criticise Totti in Italy. There might have been reasons to, sometimes, but you don't touch him.

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It was fantastic for me to see the cheering and clapping and it showed maybe not all of them want me out…

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The pressure on the English national team has always been very big at all the big tournaments.

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I would like to return to the Premier League but I think if you put that question to more or less every…

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I would certainly never walk past a player in the corridor and not speak. Why should I do that? They have to…

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Football

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From 1997 I was at Lazio for three and a half years and they were lucky times - a beautiful time. The…

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Beautiful

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I always thought I did a good job with England. But people at the time didn't think so. They had had enough…

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England

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I had a lot of respect for Ferguson. How could you not? He had built so many great teams throughout the years…

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Football

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If you want to keep up with the changes, then you have to watch as much football as you can. Live is…

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Bayern munich

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If I am going to write a book, which I have done, I think we have to get it right - whatever…

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Book

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Sometimes things go wrong in 'football. You can lose games, own-goals, you can buy the wrong players. But you do it in…

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Football

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When I was at Shanghai SIPG, I had the Brazilian player Hulk, who had joined for over £50 million from Zenit St…

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I think, that it's sort of a dream, for many coaches to have a long contract with African countries. The problem in…

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Change

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I have a big TV screen and I sit there and watch the Premier League and I get angry sometimes - 'I'm…

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Angry

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He was magnificent; very clever with outstanding technique. He could pass the ball over five yards or fifty; he could see things…

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My second year in Rome was very good. Back then, a striker was a striker. Strikers scored goals; they didn't defend. Today…

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I must say, the standard of football we play in League Two is better than I thought. I think, if you compared…

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You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I…

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Benches

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I met Ulrika Jonsson on December 8, 2001, at some party hosted by the Daily Express, or maybe it was the Daily…

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The player picked as No 23 in the squad will not win the World Cup for you.

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We need goals when the scoreline is zero zero

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Goal

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Sven-Goran Eriksson by topic

Football (78) World (17) England (14) Life (13) Time (11)