Gordon Strachan Quotes

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• I want players who are always striving to improve.
• It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson.
• He could have done one of three things. He didn't do either.
• I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.
• The reality, ... is that I need to win games of football. That's where the pressure and the sleepless nights come from. There's a fantasy…
• It wasn't an easy decision to leave out Bobo, because I could have done that with two or three from the back four. But there's…
• The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.
• He [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don't know who it…
• Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who…
• Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually…
• All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.
• Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.
• I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.
• I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.
• It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.
• People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.
• You need responsibility in life.
• I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them…
• I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and…
• I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys…

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