Harry Redknapp Quotes

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Harry Redknapp

Profession : Coach

Birth : March 2, 1947

I don't live my life feeling bitter about anything. I've been so lucky. I've had such a great life.

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I've been around a long time. I've seen it all before.

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The fans pay good money to watch their team, so they are entitled to their opinion.

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No one is more of a fan of the game than me: my son is a player.

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I remember the terrible winter in 1963, clearing the snow off the forecourt at Upton Park with the rest of the players so we could train. Job done, we'd play on it for two hours in silly little plimsolls, sliding everywhere.

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I was fortunate to spend the Sixties working for one of the greatest football minds this country has ever produced: Ron Greenwood.

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There is some right old rubbish talked about Gareth Bale's time with me at Tottenham. Was I ever going to sell Bale? No. Was I going to loan him? No.

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Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player.

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After my heart operation, I was given tablets, but, I'll admit, half the time I forget to take them. I carry them around in the car. Little triangular things - I don't know what they are, to be honest.

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Losing produces a weird reaction in me. I surrender all sense of perspective. It's ridiculous, really. All this over a football match.

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Roy Race was a comic book hero, and Steven Gerrard is a real-life one.

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Despite all that has happened in his career since, one of the biggest regrets of my life in management is not taking Luis Suarez to Tottenham when we had the chance.

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On the night of June 30, 1990, a minibus in which I was travelling was involved in a head-on collision on a road near Latina, in the region of Lazio, near Rome.

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When I was a kid, all our seaside holidays were spent on Canvey Island or in Clacton-on-Sea.

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In the Fifties, Canvey was a top seaside place for a youngster - the famous Canvey Island Casino was full of slot machines and there were all the fairground rides, such as the dodgems, and a speedway track.

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My mum and dad never went abroad for a holiday. My dad was overseas in the war but never thought about going anywhere like the Mediterranean after that, so my mum died without ever having been on a plane or abroad.

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I never went overseas until I left school and joined West Ham United Football Club at the beginning of the Sixties.

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Ryan Giggs just had an athlete's physique. He could run all day.

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The arrival of Arsene Wenger in 1996 certainly heralded a change in English football. He was very successful very quickly, and suddenly, all the talk was about his revolutionary new training methods.

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