Alan Hansen Quotes (21 quotes)

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„Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.“
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„It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.“
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„Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.“
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„I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.“
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„I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.“
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„In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.“
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„If you're going to be wrong, be dramatically wrong.“
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„The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!“
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„I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.“
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„I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.“
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„I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.“
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„Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.“
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„The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.“
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„These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.“
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„I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.“
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„What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.“
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„Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.“
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„I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.“
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„I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.“
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„The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.“
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Alan Hansen
Author born: June 13, 1955
Nationality: Scottish
Author Profession: Athlete

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