England Manager Quotes

#1. Only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League are English; that is a damning statistic. Soon, the England manager will have to go scouting for players in the Championship - and when I say 'soon' I mean the next four or five years, perhaps even for the next World Cup.

Glenn Hoddle

#2. The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager

Graham Taylor

#3. The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now.

Gerard Houllier

#4. I am very proud and honour-red to be the England manager.

Fabio Capello

#5. I have a contract and I refused a lot of opportunities to be the manager of important clubs because I want to stay here. I like this job. I like to be the England manager.

Fabio Capello

#6. Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.

Graham Taylor

#7. As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man in midfield to retain the ball, but that was more as an attacking ploy to help create opportunities. It came from my experience playing international football in a 4-4-2 and spending half my time chasing the ball.

Glenn Hoddle

#8. To be the England manager you must win every game, not do anything in your private life and hopefully not earn too much money!

Sven-Goran Eriksson

#9. Eating at home is important for us, because we eat out so much when we're away. When I'm at home I cook a lot and we eat pretty healthily. I'm not a massive vegetable fan - I've got better since I discovered how to undercook them.

Anna Friel

#10. I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

Stuart Pearce

#11. Marijuana grows naturally ... Don't you think making nature against the law seems a bit, I don't know, unnatural?

Bill Hicks

#12. A lot of times, drama around it is not for the worse but for the best in the long run. If we look at it that way, I have learned to find the best of it in most situations.

Camila Alves

#13. I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way.

Mark Twain

#14. In the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and that is not the coaching I am used to.

Luiz Felipe Scolari

#15. Hung Island, Georgia,

Robyn Peterman

#16. People from all walks of life are searching for answers to life's problems. I believe the Bible has the answer to man's deepest needs.

Billy Graham

#17. It was my proudest moment as a manager when England drew 0-0 with Italy in Rome to qualify for the World Cup finals. Fifteen years later, the stakes are equally high for both countries as they go head-to-head for a semi-final place at the European Championship.

Glenn Hoddle

#18. If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back.
(on re-signing for Liverpool)

Robbie Fowler

#19. It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

Diana Gabaldon

#20. Nowhere but in England are the papers so full of fascinating misbehaviour. There is always a scandal brewing, there is always a politician, village vicar or bank manager being pilloried, yet at the same time the country breathes a remarkable sense of order.

Geert Mak

#21. I had no immediate knowledge of the world of Batman at all. I'm quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog.

Tom Hardy

#22. Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Virginia Woolf

#23. Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.

Fabio Capello

#24. I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

Tammy Baldwin

#25. Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come.

Jane Kenyon