Graham Taylor
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Graham Taylor
Graham Taylor OBEis a former football player, manager and pundit, and former chairman of Watford Football Club. He was the manager of the England national football team from 1990 to 1993, and also managed Lincoln City, Watford, Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth15 September 1944
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His height is something he's lived with all his life and it's his main feature but he's got great feet,
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Mike's first priority is protecting the resource, but he doesn't hesitate to fold in people's needs and comments.
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Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.
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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)
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Being an ex-England manager, one that failed to qualify for the World Cup, is like being a dead politician.
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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.
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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.
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If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.
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There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."
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I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.
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Very few great goals actually go in.
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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.
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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.
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To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.