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Emma Hayes

(1976) Association Football Player

100 quotes in 318 categories

Emma Hayes talks about mental health, saying players should go home at Christmas. She pushes for fairness, urging equal chances for women in the men’s game and calling out broken promises. She also shares her love of winning, calling failure a strong word and keeping the focus on human beings.

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Emma Hayes is an association football player.

Quick Facts About Emma Hayes

Born: October 18, 1976
Profession: Association Football Player

About Emma Hayes

During her time at Chelsea she won seven Women’s Super League titles, including five in a row from 2020 through 2024.

Quotes by Emma Hayes

As coaches we want everything.

Coaches

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Meditation is important - yoga, walking.

Important

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Failure is a really strong word.

Failure

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Players that don't play aren't ever happy.

Ever

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I'm a merit-based person.

Based

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I don't like small things, I like big missions.

Big

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I am an advocate of playing in big stadiums.

Advocate

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Get rid of the Continental Cup. Get rid of it, make more league fixtures.

Cup

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We've always had to play second fiddle to the men in European football.

Always

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I just hope we do start to see more females coaching teams like you see across American sports.

American

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You want to win more when you win. That's the thing about winning, it becomes addictive.

About

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When people say: 'What's your biggest achievement?' Giving birth. Forget the rest of it.

Achievement

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I'm not afraid of Wolfsburg and I know my dressing room is not.

Afraid

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I just want to win. I love winning. It does not bore me.

Football

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I'm a huge fan of Brian Clough. I might be his female equivalent but I'm quite happy with that.

Brian

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Changing leaders is something that's pretty normal in our environment, and as we always know with geese, they're extremely loyal to their…

Always

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I might have some performance psychology support for individuals but... the best psychologist is the coach.

Best

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Fortunately I have a good support network around me but am I sitting here and saying to myself: 'Should every football club…

Football

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The football world needs to live by its promises and live by the diversity codes. They need to be promoting opportunities for…

Diversity

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The qualities involved with having to manage are exactly the same as it would be for a men's team. We are talking…

Football

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Ultimately I think clubs, boards, associations have to do more to provide an equal platform for women to get interviews for jobs.

Feminism

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I've been trusted with the responsibility of developing my players. I take that very seriously. Do I care about them? Yes, immensely.…

Developing

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We talk about women in football like we are not entitled to the same opportunity and the same access.

Entitled

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I hope and expect there are female coaches out there who are saying they want to do what I do, and if…

Game

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I just don't know why anyone would ever think that women's football is a step down and that coaching World Cup champions,…

Football

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When the football world is ready to adhere to the diversity codes so that BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) communities, plus…

Diversity

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I knew I had an unhealthy child, mainly after about the 20th week, so I knew I was battling against it. I…

Burden

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When you say 'the menopause', people understand; when you say 'periods' to someone, even if they don't understand the mechanisms of it,…

Lack

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I've shown the players geese videos. I've shown them why geese fly in V formation, what everybody's role is, how geese support…

Bottom line

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Would I love to go and get out of here and have a couple of months preparing, I don't know, anywhere in…

Go

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Football as a profession has a responsibility to modernize. The hope is - if you look at the top organizations in any…

Balance

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My routine is not being at home with a child all day, mine is with a football team.

Children

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Beating Reading's not a shoo-in. They're a good team.

Beating

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I was always the minibus driver. I was always the one carrying the balls and the cones.

Always

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Who's to say both English teams can't qualify and meet each other in the final?

Both

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But I'm grateful for everything I've got and I think that's part of my working-class background.

Blessed

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I don't have a complacent dressing room, thank goodness.

Complacent

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I have made clear I don't have national-team ambitions.

Ambitions

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I had no ambition to be a football coach. I wanted to be a spy for MI5 or MI6.

Ambition

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The fear of losing is sometimes greater than the will to win.

Fear

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Emma Hayes by topic

Football (46) Women (12) World (11) Game (10)