Graham Taylor Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Graham Taylor

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. — Graham Taylor

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

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. — Graham Taylor

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

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

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. — Graham Taylor

Is he ever going to learn? — Graham Taylor

People always remember the second half. — Graham Taylor

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

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

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

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) — Graham Taylor

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. — Graham Taylor

The ambition of an England manager should be to become England manager — Graham Taylor

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

Footballers are no different from human beings. — Graham Taylor

Very few great goals actually go in. — Graham Taylor

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. — Graham Taylor

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

In football, time and space are the same thing. — Graham Taylor

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

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