Eddie Howe Quotes

Eddie Howe

Profession : Manager

Birth : November 29, 1977

I didn't even want to be a manager, I was just given an opportunity to do it and felt I shouldn't say no.

Eddie Howe

I don't want to sound like a dictator but I don't seek too much opinion from players. That's not to say I won't bounce things off them. But they are looking for you to lead.

Eddie Howe

Players need to play freely. They need to play without that weight of expectation and to concentrate on their normal game rather than worrying about what's said about them afterwards.

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We always felt that, by implementing a football philosophy that could be transferable from League One to the Championship, and the Championship to the Premier League, it would give us more of a chance.

Eddie Howe

My Bournemouth teams always tried to be on the front foot.

Eddie Howe

At Bournemouth, every year we were in a relegation battle.

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I don't tend to struggle to sleep.

Eddie Howe

We have analysed a lot of the clubs that have got promoted, what they have done and how they have gone about their work.

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For me, it's about improving the team and making sure that we are the best we can be, and I'm sure that if we are, we will win games.

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Change is always difficult.

Eddie Howe

In an ideal world you would carry on with the players who have come through with you but that's not always possible.

Eddie Howe

It is very easy to be lazy and churn out the same stuff because you have done it before but we have never followed that and we always try to push to create new things.

Eddie Howe

Even at the end of the season, it's always about the next achievement, the next thing we can do. And I want to be like that - that's how I think you get the next one. One day I'm sure I will look back with so many special memories - probably too many to even talk about - but that will be the time I'll enjoy it.

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You hear a lot of players say: 'Well, the manager put the ball down and stuck it in the top corner.'... I'm not one of them.

Eddie Howe

There's a lot I might think I know about a person but then, when they start to talk about themselves and their childhood and certain things that might have happened in their lives, you tend to take a totally different view.

Eddie Howe

The culture of any organisation determines its success. It's all about how people interact with each other and you can stimulate that with little things to get them talking and mixing in different groups.

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Top players earn huge sums but it's about stressing that everyone's important, staff member or player, young or old.

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If you've got great people, you've got a chance of creating a great team.

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I'm not one of those people who tries to see how they're perceived by anybody.

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I'm not on Twitter, I wouldn't even know how to access it.

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