Alan Hansen Quotations

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.