Graham Taylor Quotations

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

Mike's first priority is protecting the resource, but he doesn't hesitate to fold in people's needs and comments.

His plate is full and then some. He's not adverse to getting involved in any issue, but he sometimes spreads himself too thin.

Everyone talks about his height as though that's all there is to him. But he's a very good player. Look at his touch, look at his passing, look at his control

Everyone talks about his height as if that's all there is to him but I can assure everyone he's very good technically. Look at his touch

It would be very much harder to win it without him. One of the criteria for most of the past World Cup winners is that they possess a 'special' player. You know, you have a Maradona, you have a Pele, and, in Rooney, England have that 'special' player coming into 2006 in Germany.

Self assessment, combined with the authority of the Certified Open processes, gives us a light touch/high rigor approach. Even the smallest supplier can compete on level terms. This is very much a scheme where both the public and private sectors jointly benefit from a more open market.

His height is something he's lived with all his life and it's his main feature but he's got great feet,

He's not flashy, he only makes saves that are necessary and that's the hallmark of a very good goalkeeper. He's a terrific team player, and has been a great ambassador for Watford too.

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.

It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager

Footballers are no different from human beings.

He's a player you only miss when he's not playing

People always remember the second half.

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

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

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

Carlos Tevez's English should be better than what it is

Very few great goals actually go in.

Is he ever going to learn?

If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.

His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not. (on David Beckham)

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."