175 Quotes by Sam Allardyce

No matter what people say outside of football, we don't work for money, we work for the love of the game and the money is something that follows.

Finishing in the top four for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man United was easier before, but now it's getting much more difficult with the emergence of teams like Manchester City.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

Just because a player drops down a division, it doesn't mean he's turned into a bad player overnight and isn't good enough for England.

Arsene has most of the media in his pocket now and is almost - almost - affecting the officials so that you can't tackle an Arsenal player. That's something he's very clever at working on and it's almost working in his favour, you can see that.

It's great having the best league in the world, no doubt about that, but the downside of that is the national team will suffer.

Most young talented players I worked with over many, many years who I've met later have said, 'Oh, I wish I'd listened to you.' When you meet them later in life they regret not taking the opportunity with the talent they had.

There is a lot of pressure at first when you first take over a club that's struggling but you want to go and do your best for yourself, your family and the club that employ you.

There's only a certain amount of times you can tell somebody what they should or shouldn't be doing. If they don't want to take it on board there's little you can do.