115 Quotes by Glenn Hoddle

75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction...

He was a player that hasn’t had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

If there is any bad feeling I hope it’s against me and not my players – I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!

Football’s all about 90 minutes.

Arsenal haven’t won anything for three years, so they’re used to success.

The old adage that you shouldn’t change a winning team doesn’t apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

I had some very good players and some wonderful young players hitting the scene. Rio Ferdinand, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, Michael Owen - we had something tangible to work with and move forward.

I spent hours from 11 until 16 with Tottenham in the gym playing the ball against the wall. We played against the wall for an hour before we would have a match. Left foot. Right foot. In the square. In the circle. Above the line, below it. Chest control. Thigh control. Volley sideways.

I don't know about Mario Balotelli saying, 'Why always me?' - England should be saying as a nation, 'Why always us?' You can go back to 1970, when Gordon Banks got food poisoning and we lost to West Germany. Then there was 1986 and Maradona's hand. And last time, Frank Lampard not getting his goal against the Germans.