We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can lead a lot of horses to water, but you can't make them all drink. — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
The Football Association have always acted more as a referee than a governor. And the FA, aware the Premier League provide players for the England team, have always had too gentle a hand on the tiller. The result is that… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
I know so many players who say they wouldn't entertain coaching, until they retire that is, and then they want to take their coaching… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
There are people who enjoy the life in England but don't pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
You don't hear a film director saying 'Money mustn't go out of the industry' to actors. You don't hear a concert promoter saying 'We… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
We are trying to educate players to use their spare time to train for a life after football, which comes to everybody. You can… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
The whole object of the players' association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off. — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
Footballers are the most vulnerable people. They exude confidence, but inside, they're so lacking in confidence. They know they can lose form or be… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
Footballers are kept in such a bubble that horse racing is a release. — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having… — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
People will look at Bowyer and Woodgate and say 'Well, there's no mud without flames'. — Gordon Taylor Copy Share Image
