Sol Campbell Quotes

Sol Campbell

Profession : Businessman

Birth : September 18, 1974

I'm from Stratford, East London. I can get down and dirty. I just roll my sleeves up and get on with it.

Sol Campbell

I learned a lot from Arsene Wenger, especially his tactical systems and how to plan things game to game, week to week and month to month.

Sol Campbell

I'm a street footballer and you still get street footballers from Africa, South Africa and really poor parts of Europe.

Sol Campbell

A lack of street footballers dulls the imagination, dulls that natural thinking outside the box. You need that on the street when you're 9 and have to beat a 14-year-old on the dribble. Or if you get knocked out and have to sit on the side and come on.

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Most of my players have come through academies with clubs. That's not a bad thing, but it's very different to what I grew up with.

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I think that what London wants are people with ideas and the willpower to get things through.

Sol Campbell

With the Tube, it just needs more investment. Maybe lengthening some of the platforms to get more carriages in, things like that. It just needs more investment put into it.

Sol Campbell

But when you look at some of the other guys who have started with their careers in management, they all started with no experience. You have got to start somewhere.

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If you have got diversity on your board, then you are going to have new ideas come to the table.

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But sport is about character. It is about understanding how a team works, about pushing the team. I also wanted to do it because of where I am from as a human being. That's what London people want: thinking outside the box, new ideas.

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My values are in my DNA and were shaped by my environment.

Sol Campbell

My parents worked hard. My mother, Wilhelmina, was a very strong woman. She had to be with 12 kids. She would do anything for the family. She was a light, the glue in the family.

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I'm used to having strong women around me. My mother was. My wife is. I like their strong mentality.

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I have the tools to climb the mountain so I don't mind climbing mountains. I have climbed mountains since I was growing up in east London in Plaistow. I'm not scared of climbing mountains. When you get to the top, the view's great. That's what it's all about.

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I've done it the correct way with the coaching badges. I have done watching the games, I have done listening to managers, I have done travelling around Europe watching other managers train, I have done a bit of TV work to help with analysis.

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I saw a lot of stuff growing up as a young kid that I don't want my kids seeing.

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People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come from nothing and I've not forgotten that.

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I've been abroad, I've been at home. I've even flown 10 hours away for an interview, so I've done a lot of miles. I should probably be an ambassador for British Airways.

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The passion is still there, you can try and walk away from football but it just keeps on coming back.

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Every time I have gotten into anything, I have wanted to do it well. I've always been like that as a young boy, every time I've wanted to go on that pitch.

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