Sven-Goran Eriksson

I have two great children, even if they don't live with me.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

Premier League is one thing. World Cup is totally different.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

Paul Scholes was at home on a cold February day away to Newcastle.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

He has many qualities as a prince, but he is not a surgeon.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

Sooner or later, an African team will win the World Cup.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

How many Messis do you have in India if they had the chance to play?

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

The truth is that I never cared about money. Not one bit.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

I have remained a Lazio fan and that was the strongest team I ever coached.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

You know I never hate anyone in my life. I don't think I have many enemies but I hate Samir Khan because…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

Sometimes I thought that maybe it would have been better to stay in Italy, to stay at Lazio.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

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

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

The treatment of Wayne Rooney told me something about the way England fans view the national team.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

I didn't care: if I liked a woman and wanted to meet her, why shouldn't I be able to?

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

If you travel around the world with David Beckham it's total chaos everywhere you go.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

With England, every time we lost I was 'not passionate.' But I tried to say we won a lot of games when…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

Without big money you can't stay at the top. Maybe you can reach it for one year but you can't if you…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

You look at the way some of the big English players in the past, like Rooney and David Beckham, have been criticised…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

I'd won three cups with Lazio - then, against the odds, we won Serie A, the Italian equivalent of the Premier League.…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

If you are the coach of Bayern Munich, Barcelona or Real Madrid, the chances to win something are huge. When you go…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

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

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

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

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

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

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

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

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

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

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

Before England, I had never been sacked in my life.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

It's always nice to see Brazil playing football.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

We need goals when the scoreline is zero zero

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

Football is much harder if you don't have the ball.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

When we fail at something it's because it needs work.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

When you go to a World Cup, the whole nation should be behind the team - and then the team have to…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

If Rooney had been Italian, he would have been loved like Francesco Totti was at Roma.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

The Philippines is unfortunately not a football country - basketball is more popular.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

Italian footballers can take a coffee and sit for two hours talking, laughing.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

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

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

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

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

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

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

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

— Sven-Goran Eriksson