Football Quotes by Harry Redknapp

Luka Modric could get into almost any team.

— Harry Redknapp

What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know.

— Harry Redknapp

Paul Scholes should be included in England's Euro 2012 squad.

— Harry Redknapp

Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player.

— Harry Redknapp

All my mates are West Ham supporters; I went there at 15.

— Harry Redknapp

I just thought Spurs were a challenge that I had to take on.

— Harry Redknapp

Luka Modric is an outstanding footballer, a great player.

— Harry Redknapp

If you buy too many bad players, you don't last in this game.

— Harry Redknapp

Roy Race was a comic book hero, and Steven Gerrard is a real-life one.

— Harry Redknapp

Ryan Giggs just had an athlete's physique. He could run all day.

— Harry Redknapp

I very much doubt that it could happen again that any manager would do 20 years with a top Premiership club.

— Harry Redknapp

For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.

— Harry Redknapp

You couldn't put a value on him, he's on another planet. For me, Lionel Messi is undoubtedly the No.1 player in the…

— Harry Redknapp

Lionel Messi reminds me of George Best, the way he would run with the ball tight to his foot.

— Harry Redknapp

There're plenty of good people in football - mostly players and managers.

— Harry Redknapp

Football wears you out, and when things are not going well, it's not enjoyable.

— Harry Redknapp

Two wide men stuck out wide leave you very open in midfield, but it's a strength as well. Going forward, it makes…

— Harry Redknapp

The arrival of Arsene Wenger in 1996 certainly heralded a change in English football. He was very successful very quickly, and suddenly,…

— Harry Redknapp

I took Kanu on the Tuesday before the first game of the season because I never had any strikers. He said he…

— Harry Redknapp

I do wonder how managers like Brian Clough and Bill Shankly would cope. How would Cloughie deal with players taking five pairs…

— Harry Redknapp

Losing produces a weird reaction in me. I surrender all sense of perspective. It's ridiculous, really. All this over a football match.

— Harry Redknapp

At West Ham, I was never able to buy the top-flight players. It was a case of looking around, trying to do…

— Harry Redknapp

I can't keep protecting people who don't want to run about and train, who are about three stone overweight. What am I…

— Harry Redknapp

He is not injured. He's not fit. He's not fit to play football, unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other…

— Harry Redknapp

Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law…

— Harry Redknapp

You can look at stats as much as you want - and we do - but you can have too much of…

— Harry Redknapp

I've still got a scrapbook at home of the Munich air crash. I was an Arsenal supporter, and I went with my…

— Harry Redknapp

Down at Bournemouth, I kicked a tray of cups up into air, and one hit Luther Blissett on the head. He flicked…

— Harry Redknapp

I see it every week - parents shouting and screaming at kids. My dad was the same. He was always there, but…

— Harry Redknapp

Gareth Bale could play anywhere.

— Harry Redknapp

Lionel Messi is the most amazing player I have ever seen.

— Harry Redknapp

Luckily they had a stupid on their side too.

— Harry Redknapp

I enjoy going to Old Trafford. I love the tradition.

— Harry Redknapp

You come here to Anfield, you stand there and listen to that crowd, and it's the greatest sight in football.

— Harry Redknapp

I don't think it can be in the genes. If you see the amount of footballers, how many sons play football? Not…

— Harry Redknapp

I don't fear the sack, but I take results home with me. And when I don't win... I am no use to…

— Harry Redknapp

He's disappeared to Azerbaijan, or somewhere ridiculous in the world.

— Harry Redknapp

The players don't sit in there and think, 'We have to make the Champions League.' They want to play well in every…

— Harry Redknapp

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left.

— Harry Redknapp

I am a fantastic football manager, not a hard-headed businessman.

— Harry Redknapp