Graham Potter Quotes

Graham Potter

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 20, 1975

At Ostersunds, we had half the players who were part-time and working and the other half were full-time.

Graham Potter

The pressure of the Premier League is huge but so is moving your family across the world to a club where they had sacked the manager every year for the last five.

Graham Potter

My unglittering football career came to a halt at the age at 30, and I had to embark on a coaching career: 14 years of hard work and sacrifice, learning and mistakes.

Graham Potter

But the concept that it's important to understand the individual and the person, as well as the footballer, is a helpful concept, regardless of the competition.

Graham Potter

I improved enormously, on and off the pitch, over that year at Swansea.

Graham Potter

You always need a bit of fortune in life.

Graham Potter

We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes of the players and play to their strengths.

Graham Potter

Without those experiences in higher education I wouldn't have been able to do this job. It taught me a more holistic approach and prepared me for the experience of working abroad, where your cultural beliefs are challenged and, sometimes, turned on their head.

Graham Potter

What you've never had, you never miss.

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Educating players and being part of the community are very important.

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I want to take people out of their comfort zones and teach them to rely on their team-mates.

Graham Potter

But any squad needs players who are hungry to do well, with their careers ahead of them. That's important for the dynamic of the group, but it also needs a balance of guys who have seen it, done it and have that quality of leadership. It is all about the quality of the player.

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It is about building the best team you can, not just one to play in the Championship. You look short-term because you need to be competitive, that's the nature of the business. But it's exciting to have players whose potential is exciting.

Graham Potter

If you identify those guys - something we have done in the past - who are not as valued in the current market for whatever reason and you look to get them to play at a higher level than where they have come from. That's how you develop the team.

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The profile is to find if someone can perform in the Championship and help you win, and also play in the Premier League because that has to be the goal.

Graham Potter

The competition that is the Premier League is the biggest challenge in itself. It's my job to get the players to believe that they can go in to every match and win.

Graham Potter

My mum had always pressed on me to continue my education, and it was just the volatility of sport in terms of not being able to control the result.

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Like everybody I needed to learn to be a coach, I needed to practise that and make mistakes in a decent environment where I could develop myself and not fear I was going to lose my job.

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I had five years in the university sector which was a time where I could make my mistakes, develop with the students and players there. I also worked with the people at the university to put some concept and theory on my own experiences.

Graham Potter

I was fairly rubbish as a player.

Graham Potter