Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by David Moyes
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
You can't ring up another manager and say, 'Who do you think I should pick this week?' But you take the good and bad from people as you go along.
I was a young manager at Everton and had 11 great years there.
The manager needs to be given the opportunity to get on with his job and be given that time that he needs.
I've got huge affection for Everton. It was my life for over a decade.
I'll do everything I can to get West Ham as far up the table as I can.
I took over from Sir Alex, and it was always going to take time, whoever was in charge.
In this game, you're on your own. You either sink or swim.
I have a point to prove. Sometimes you have to repair things, and maybe I have a little bit that I need to repair.
I worked hard at Everton.
I've worked for a long time to get myself in a position where maybe I'd be fortunate enough to land one of the big jobs.
I'm always very careful when I'm spending the club's money. I treat it like it's my own, and I always try to sign players for what I feel is the right price.
Do I feel I should have been given more time? Of course I do. To go to a club like Manchester United and follow someone like Sir Alex after the time he had been there, to stay for ten months... It couldn't be a revolution at Manchester United; it had to be evolution. It had to take time.
I would never speak about players at other football clubs - I think it's wrong. It's not my style.
If you play for Manchester United, there is always someone out there getting ready to take your jersey. It is up to you to fight and make sure you keep it.
I hope I can fulfill all my ambitions at Everton. But you never know in this game.
I hope that the future is great for West Ham.
I'll answer as many questions as I can, but when people have a contract at other football clubs, I think it's wrong to talk about them.
I worked hard at Preston.
I've always admired great football managers, and Sir Alex Ferguson had so much success.
I think sometimes you need a run and a bit of confidence with getting the goals.
Bryan Gray at Preston gave me a chance, even though Joe Royle and Ian Rush were being linked with the job. He taught me an awful lot about structuring the job and encouraged me to invest in young players.
I was a footballer for a long, long time.
I'm desperately ambitious, and one of the things I haven't been able to do at Everton is win a trophy.
I would still consider myself in the elite group of managers. If it was me against someone else, I'd trust myself.
It will not get better than Sir Alex Ferguson. It just won't.
Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.
Bill Kenwright has taught me how to deal with people.
I would never have left Everton for anybody but an ambitious football club. And I thought Manchester United would have given me that opportunity.
I would like it to be the rules all round the world that that is the case - you manage the country of your birth.
In England, I always liked the way Terry Venables worked.
I love to see goals and attacking play; I want us to be entertaining. But it's no good if you're shipping goals.
I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.
Your reputation doesn't stand for anything. You have to come and try to get up and show you're capable of doing the job.
I got Everton competing at the top end of the league with a midtable budget.
I don't think managers have the opportunity to think in terms of a long-term vision for a club.
Going back to my playing days, I was at Cambridge United for a couple of seasons, and, of course, Newmarket is just down the road. On my days off, I would go to Newmarket quite often, park up by the gallops, and watch the horses work. It was something else.
Football is not always as glamourous as some might imagine, as the story of the first time I signed Marouane Fellaini perhaps illustrates.
I've always been quite strict when it comes to the appearance of my players. I don't want to see earrings in training, things like that.
Manchester United isn't about Wayne Rooney. Manchester United is about the team, the club.
With Marouane's hair, I actually wondered if it might take a bit of the pace off the ball when he went up for a header. But I soon realised it was part of his personality. Part of who he is.
If you want to keep your best players, you need top European football because they want to be involved in that.
As a young Scottish footballer growing up - I always used to follow Scotland and watch the games - Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, and Joe Jordan were players I looked up to.
I agree with Arsene Wenger that finishing in the top four is the equivalent of winning a trophy - even if you don't get to parade silverware.
Maybe it's old-fashioned, but I've always preferred to see players with my own eyes than on a video or going on somebody else's recommendation. If that means getting up early and taking a flight, then so be it. Our success at Everton came from having a great recruitment team who I made sure were out watching the players.
We had some glorious nights at Goodison and the fans were superb.
Manchester United was a club with great traditions, traditions where they tended to pick British managers. That tradition has now gone.
I gave everything I could in trying to make Everton the best I could.
I think I'm capable of doing the job at any club in the world, so I'm sure I can do it at West Ham.
There is no club in Europe that wouldn't want Van Persie at centre-forward.
I don't think anyone ever turns down their national team opportunity, but I think it has to be at the right time.
You're never going to go through a season with no injuries.
At Everton, we have always tried to do good deals and have always tried to buy at the right age and the right price.
It's true that players can take time to settle at a new club. I remember people telling me it took Patrice Evra and Nemanja Vidic a while - players who became great players for United.
I had plenty of opportunities before I went to Spain to stay in England, and I had made a decision that I would go and work in Spain.
Celtic's a brilliant football club, and they have an unbelievable fan base - one of the biggest in the world.
I've had my down times, as every manager does, but I bounce back pretty quickly.
I had a great time at Everton when I was there and came away from that with a lot of high regard.
I think people know that I've got things in my mind that I want to do and things I wanted to change in time. I can't do it all overnight.
I would have to consider the U.S.A. job if I was approached because it's one of the big nations in world football, with massive growth potential.
Real Sociedad fans are fantastic; they know that the club is trying to join the other teams who are always in the top part of the table - to get as close to them as possible.
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