Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Roy Hodgson - Page 2

The one thing we have to remember about Fernando Torres is that he's a human being who has come in for an enormous amount of criticism, not least during the World Cup from people in Spain and around the world.

Systems win you nothing, and football players win you games.

If the be-all and end-all of your ability is, 'Have you got a trophy to your name,' I find that hard to understand. It's so naive in terms of what the job of being a football coach is all about.

I enjoyed Wembley like all the managers before me, and I would hope that games would still be played there by the England national team.

The main problem with English players has always been the price.

Luckily, my age doesn't ever come into my thoughts.

Talk is talk; action on the field is action on the field.

As far as I'm concerned, if you're only going to call managers who have won a trophy any good, then basically, you have four or five.

It's an achievement I can be happy about - if you call getting old and still being in a job an achievement.

We believe defending is very much a team job, and we can't just rely on a back four and a goalkeeper.

It's true that if it's always going to be that if you win the World Cup or European Championship, you're a success, and if you don't, you're a failure, then you're bedding yourself for a lack of success because there aren't many coaches who have won those things, and there are thousands who haven't.

There might be more meetings and situations where you're required to represent the country in some way that wouldn't necessarily happen to you if you're a club manager, but other than that, I haven't found any differences in my approach between running a club side and a national team.

People are entitled to say what they feel sometimes.

I don't think any job is impossible.

You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.

All managers have someone they lean on and take advice from.

I think any manager who tells you, 'I am very good at keeping my equilibrium. I'm always calm and reasoned, and results don't affect me particularly. I can take the good with the bad, and I can put the wins and the losses in perspective,' you will find a special person. I've never met one.

Often, in a tournament, the players that get injured or suffer a lack of form are the guys at the cutting edge, the guys who make the difference or score the goals.

New faces, maybe perking up the squad and giving you another arrow to your bow - that can be a help.

I don't like talking about not getting what you deserve, because that has no part to play in football. You get what you get.

All you can do when you are given a chance to play for England is to go out against whoever that opponent may be and do it very well. And if you do that, you get yourself in the forefront of the manager's mind.

I have worked long and hard to reach the level I have reached.

I don't think there are many jobs that would have tempted me away from Fulham, to be perfectly honest.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

I don't have any intention to resign.

I am both proud and excited at the prospect of working as the Liverpool manager.

To be frank, you can't compare the atmosphere and the way people behaved in the Olympic Stadium with the game I watched the day after, the Community Shield.

Anyone who watches football and watches Tottenham play would have to be an admirer of the way they play football and the way they go about their business.

All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don't go their way late in life as they did early in life.

I wouldn't mind a spotlight also focused on the crowd, because, I think, one of the things that made the Olympic Games for Great Britain was the incredible support within the stadia where the events took place.

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.

Maybe I see things too naively at times.

You're as old as you feel.

Achievements are often more interesting to you when you look back on them.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

As far as I know, Fulham were never for sale during my time there. Mohamed Al Fayed never wanted to sell Fulham.

I'm not prepared to make any comments on the World Cup in Qatar in 1922.

Andy Johnson was literally banjoed out of the game

We all saw it coming. Arsenal's youth policy has always been very good.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'