Redknapp Quotes & Sayings

Journalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'. — Harry Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer. — Jamie Redknapp

The way I am, I like to look forward instead of looking back. — Jamie Redknapp

He is not injured. He's not fit. He's not fit to play football, unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other day and I could have run about more than he did. I can't pick him. — Harry Redknapp

What are they going to do, shoot me? It's not war you know. — Harry Redknapp

When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No. — Jamie Redknapp

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre. — Jamie Redknapp

I've been at Liverpool for eight years, and the time has come for us to start achieving. — Jamie Redknapp

David Bentley has got balls - and plenty of them — Harry Redknapp

I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career. — Jamie Redknapp

The importance of a warm up and cool down can't be stressed enough. — Jamie Redknapp

The only relaxed boss is Big Ron. He had me drinking pink champagne - before the match. — Harry Redknapp

Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it. Too small, you would think - can't run, dumpy little ginger nut - but then the ball would come to him and he would dazzle you. He was the best footballer in that Manchester United midfield, better than Ryan Giggs and Roy Keane. — Harry Redknapp

You have to be physical - that's the way it is in a midfield in the modern game. — Jamie Redknapp

I enjoy spending time at home or going out for a quiet meal in a restaurant. — Jamie Redknapp

As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark. — Jamie Redknapp

Lionel Messi is the most amazing player I have ever seen. — Harry Redknapp

We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them. — Jamie Redknapp

People have always thought of me as a passer of the ball, but you can't just be that these days. — Jamie Redknapp

I write like a two-year-old and I can't spell — Harry Redknapp

From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing. — Jamie Redknapp

I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video. — Harry Redknapp

You come here to Anfield, you stand there and listen to that crowd, and it's the greatest sight in football. — Harry Redknapp

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star. — Jamie Redknapp

I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio. — Harry Redknapp

Paul Scholes should be included in England's Euro 2012 squad. — Harry Redknapp

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks. — Jamie Redknapp

You couldn't put a value on him, he's on another planet. For me, Lionel Messi is undoubtedly the No.1 player in the world. — Harry Redknapp

If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing. — Jack Whitehall

In the past I've had a bad injury, and then struggled when I've got back because I've been unfit. — Jamie Redknapp

Although my dad Harry is the manager of West Ham, we get on very well. — Jamie Redknapp

I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him. — Jamie Redknapp

He's disappeared to Azerbaijan, or somewhere ridiculous in the world. — Harry Redknapp

I cried at my son's sports day, for God's
sake. I'm a huge baby — Jamie Redknapp

My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me. — Jamie Redknapp

People ask me why I keep getting injured but I have just had to accept it is one of those things that happen. — Jamie Redknapp

I haven't counted, obviously, but I reckon I've lost over a year and a half of my career through injury so far. — Jamie Redknapp

When I heard the draw I was out on the golf course. I had an eight-iron in one hand and my mobile in the other. When we came out with United, my club went further than the ball. — Harry Redknapp

I took Kanu on the Tuesday before the first game of the season because I never had any strikers. He said he hadn't kicked a ball since last season and I asked him if he'd been training. — Harry Redknapp

Frank Lampard has a vision for seeing things — Jamie Redknapp

I suppose it hacks me off sometimes when people go on about all the other stuff, because I have really worked hard at my game, and I've been incredibly dedicated in getting myself fit, and getting my game right. — Jamie Redknapp

Most goals are scored between the posts. — Jamie Redknapp

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare. — Harry Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs — Jamie Redknapp

I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari. — Harry Redknapp

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action. — Jamie Redknapp

But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble. — Jamie Redknapp

Me Grandad is 74 and he's football bananas, so me nan gets loads of grief. — Jamie Redknapp

In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound. — Jamie Redknapp

Physically and mentally I'm stronger right now because an injury is not playing on my mind all the time. — Jamie Redknapp

I'm a footballer, that's my job and that's all I want to be known for. — Jamie Redknapp

My guilty pleasure is One Direction. — Jamie Redknapp

Thierry Henry is a fantastic professional and will be massive here in New York, i'm sure, he is world class — Harry Redknapp

It's not enough just being a good passer of the ball. — Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that. — Jamie Redknapp

But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business. — Jamie Redknapp

You can't play when you're not 100% fit especially at this level. — Jamie Redknapp

I don't care about Christmas, we are going to train on Christmas Day. — Harry Redknapp

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky. — Jamie Redknapp

You have to be professional and think about the future. — Jamie Redknapp

Luckily they had a stupid on their side too. — Harry Redknapp

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all. — Jamie Redknapp

I don't think there's a specific route to take to make a relationship last a long time. And who knows what the future will bring. Please God we are happy forever, but you just don't know what's round the corner. For me the key issue is not to be selfish, on both sides. I think the moment someone becomes selfish they let the other person down. — Louise Redknapp

It's important we win and because of the players we have we should win some matches in style. — Jamie Redknapp

I'm looking out for myself, but I'm looking out for my dad, too. — Jamie Redknapp

Samassi Abou don't speak the English too good. — Harry Redknapp

The ball was coming down like a butterfly with sore feet. — Jamie Redknapp

Only one thing can stop Luis Suarez from being voted as the Players' Player of the Year ... his fellow players — Jamie Redknapp

Suarez will improve and he will get better. — Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me. — Jamie Redknapp

You've got to do it all, the physical as well as the skilful. — Jamie Redknapp

You can't just play on the edge of games - you have to be in the thick of it. — Jamie Redknapp

I left a couple of my foreigners out last week and they started talking in 'foreign'. I knew what they were saying: Blah, blah, blah, le b*** manager, f*** uselss b***! — Harry Redknapp

It's like being on the Titanic and seeing there's only one lifeboat left. — Harry Redknapp

Arsenal have been literally passed to death. — Jamie Redknapp

Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation. — Jamie Redknapp

Arsenal's width comes from wide areas — Jamie Redknapp

But I just want to be known for my football. — Jamie Redknapp

I can't keep protecting people who don't want to run about and train, who are about three stone overweight. What am I supposed to keep saying? 'Keep getting your 60, 70 grand a week but don't train'? What's the game coming to? — Harry Redknapp

You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything. — Jamie Redknapp

Harry [Redknapp] is going to be literally, literally pulling his hair out. — John Scales

We've got sports scientists who insist it's important for the lads to eat after games to refuel, even if it's 2am. I used to refuel after games at West Ham until half past three in the morning in a different way - but then I'm old school. — Harry Redknapp

I've worked on the physical side and I think I'm a player that can do most things. — Jamie Redknapp

It's a horrible feeling - there's nothing worse for any player than to be thinking at the back of your mind that there's something wrong with you. — Jamie Redknapp

If you can't pass the ball properly, a bowl of pasta's not going to make that much difference! — Harry Redknapp

I'm enjoying myself this year and for once I'm not chasing my fitness. — Jamie Redknapp

I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game. — Jamie Redknapp