Graham Potter Quotes

Graham Potter

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 20, 1975

When it is 1-0 and you have been dominant and you have restricted the home team to pretty much nothing, if you do not score the second goal then that is football. Any action can happen in the game.

Graham Potter

I was only picking up short-term contracts in the lower leagues. I thought that rather than the game kick me out, I'd be proactive about it.

Graham Potter

Any coach in my era will reference or look at Guardiola's teams. If you look at the style of play, he has had a huge influence on football. And he has innovated it again.

Graham Potter

My playing career that was a bit up but mostly down. I played in the Premier League at Southampton but most of my career was in the lower divisions.

Graham Potter

From a football perspective, putting young footballers into art, or singing - you're doing something that's not so familiar. It has helped us build a team and build a spirit.

Graham Potter

You make mistakes at the results end of football and you can be out on your ear pretty quickly.

Graham Potter

I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't do much else to be honest.

Graham Potter

We want to help the players be more comfortable in their own skin, a bit braver, a bit more aware and more understanding of each other.

Graham Potter

Ostersund has marketed itself as a winter city. But that's changing now, with the success of the football team.

Graham Potter

Sometimes it helps to see the world through someone else's eyes.

Graham Potter

Ultimately, good players need to play and they don't always at a young age in England.

Graham Potter

I don't think it's fair to say the standard of English coaching is bad. It's more about pathway: how you can get a break and then progress from there. Even at the lowest levels there is impatience now, so you need a bit of luck in terms of the owner or chairman that you work with.

Graham Potter

We thought of cultural activities as a way of taking players out of their comfort zone and building team spirit, helping them be braver, and a bit more comfortable in the uncomfortable situations.When you involve the community in that they get interested.

Graham Potter

It's hard to get opportunities anywhere. There are a lot of coaches out there and a lot of talented coaches too. It's not easy. Quite often there's no perfect situation that emerges.

Graham Potter

My situation, and my opportunity, was the fourth tier in Swedish football and a place that nobody really wanted to go to. Of course it's turned out well for me.

Graham Potter

I was obviously never good enough to play at a top level, or even anywhere close to that, if I'm being honest. That's the reality.

Graham Potter

If you can have a career as a footballer for 13 years then you're really lucky, but there will probably be plenty of supporters up and down the country saying that I wasn't a top player, to put it kindly. That's for sure.

Graham Potter