A Quote by Simon Kuper
Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.
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Business is another kind of world that I don't think is as passionate. It is not the pressure to perform as you have in football. It is more about strategy, skill, about how you deal with all the information you have. Some of the things from football I can bring to business, and some things from business I can bring to football.
When I got there, there were two sides: business and football. Business I understand. It was pretty obvious to me what we had to do. But the football side was like the Holy Grail.
The one great thing about football is that whatever happens it will manifest itself on the pitch. If it's right, you'll see it on the pitch, if it's wrong, it will be on the pitch. In business you can get fellas who are doing crooked deals and nobody knows anything about it. There is an ultimate honesty about football. Politics is part of the lying game, I wouldn't trust any of them. In football you can hide for a while, but ultimately the truth comes out. I always loved that.
Football today means players stay less now than ever before and you have to accept that. As a manager, a big part of your business is doing far too much business that you don't want to do really.
It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club; that's just normal.
It doesn't matter who you are, football's a business. At some stage you're going to have to leave a football club, that's just normal.
Both football and business are part of my life.
I am more mature now and know how to deal with certain situations in football. It's not all about highs; there are also lows, but I can deal with it. Football is a hard business.
Profit and fame will not develop Indian football. Professionals, technique development, legacy specialists, and experts in football business, will develop India as football country.
What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
I don't really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.
In football, in football clubs, there are many decisions that don't make business sense. Yes, there is always a lot of emotion involved.
Football is business. It's all about being quick, quick, quick - nobody has any patience nowadays. But then again, that is how things are in normal life, away from football.
The life of a business is not like a football team! We are not taking part in an Italy-France game or against Germany.
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.
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