Robbie Savage Quotes

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Robbie Savage

Profession : Footballer

Birth : October 18, 1974

If wildly variable refereeing standards not yet a crisis, we are reaching a tipping point. And it may take more than the dawn of VARs to sort out the mess.

Robbie Savage

When I was playing, it wasnt even close. Arsenal were the team to beat when you turned off the North Circular.

Robbie Savage

This is madness - when a single footballer is more expensive than building a hospital or school, the transfer market has lost its marbles.

Robbie Savage

I have always been an advocate of market forces and players being paid whatever clubs are prepared to pay them. Good luck to them.

Robbie Savage

You'll find that I've watched around 400 games at age-group level, from six to 14 years old, over the last eight years because both my sons play for academy teams - and I have not seen a single dive.

Robbie Savage

If you have ever played the game, you will know there are times when it is impossible to tackle an opponent without both feet leaving the ground, if only for an instant.

Robbie Savage

Brendan Rodgers is leading Leicester City back into the Champions League - and he is a future Manchester United manager.

Robbie Savage

In 2015-16, when Leicester won the title, I didnt really believe they were going to do it until the last four or five weeks of the season.

Robbie Savage

If you ask your players to be brave on the ball, sometimes they are going to make mistakes or get caught out.

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I dont like Graham Poll. He thinks he is pretty special, and Im not quite sure why.

Robbie Savage

I'd rather blow up than fizzle out. I don't want to fade away and go down the leagues.

Robbie Savage

I'm not the most articulate guy in the world or the most educated but whatever I get into I'm passionate about and give everything I've got.

Robbie Savage

I'm not a Gary Neville or a Jamie Carragher, or somebody who doesn't need to do their apprenticeship in the media and can go straight into it because they've played for massive clubs. I've had to work at it but I believe I am better than them.

Robbie Savage

I'm horrendous at dancing but I think if you do 'Strictly', you go on to another level, and that's a level I have never been at.

Robbie Savage

The thing is, I think all my experiences, good and bad on the football field, helped me in my punditry because Ive been in situations where Ive gone to ground too easily, Ive made a mountain out of a molehill, Ive tried to get players sent off for the good of my team, wrongly. Ive acted stupidly, celebrated.

Robbie Savage

I believe I had an unbelievable career. Because there are so many kids who will never get the opportunities I had with more footballing ability.

Robbie Savage

I dont regret for one minute that I only won one trophy because again, to play at Wembley and lift the trophy, how many players can say that? Of course, Id like to have been in contention to win trophies every single year, but I wasnt, but I can sleep easy at night knowing I got the best out of what I had.

Robbie Savage

If have done well for Leeds then Id have loved to have played for Manchester United, that would have been great.

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