Sam Allardyce Quotes

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Sam Allardyce

Profession : Businessman

Birth : October 19, 1954

It's great having the best league in the world, no doubt about that, but the downside of that is the national team will suffer.

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If you're talking about English football very few teams play 4-4-2 now: it's either 4-4-1-1, 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1, they are the three major systems played throughout the Premier League.

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I have always said that managers stay in a job when they win football matches.

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Jay Jay Okocha. On and off the field he was the captain you looked for.

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I am not a great sleeper, so 30 minutes of meditation, they say in research, is as good as two or three hours sleep, which is why you feel better.

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What is entertainment? Entertainment is the master of defence in Europe - Simeone.

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A quality player is a quality player.

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It is very important to me to communicate with the fans and not hide what's going on behind the scenes.

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We've got the greatest Premier League, greatest domestic competition in the world but the downside of that is we've got fewer and fewer English players playing in that league.

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There's always going to be a time when there's a difficult period and my responsibility is to manage the players through that. You have to make sure you bring stability back to the club and get where you want to be.

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I don't have to prove a point to anybody. The only thing I do is continue to do my job and all the outside press can do and say what they want to because that's their right and their industry.

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My confidence is in myself and how I run a football club and I've been doing that for many, many years now.

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My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.

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My main aim is to finish as high up the top of the Premier League as possible. I have the ability to help teams survive.

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We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.

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Teams with limited budgets will always find times tough and results won't always go your way.

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You cannot just force 'the only way to play is this way' in this country.

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My parents are from Scotland and my sister and brother were both born in Scotland so my heritage is from there.

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When you hit that safe 40-point mark it's very easy for a player to think about his holidays and actually switch off.

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I think accepting an instruction is part of a player's responsibility.

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