Tony Adams Quotes

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Tony Adams

Profession : Manager

Birth : October 10, 1966

I look at four things in my life: finance, work, relationships and health. I strive for balance.

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Practice makes perfect, that is my way.

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My nose must have been broken five times in my debut season.

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If a defender is not pressurising you, then he's not doing his job.

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My experience of the addict is: huge ego and low self-esteem.

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I love Arsenal and I will always be proud to walk through the door as an Arsenal man.

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Glenn Hoddle is probably one of the best technical coaches in the country. Top, top guy. I think he got the England job too early - he was 38 when he was managing England.

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My mother's side of the family tree is Scotland - Edinburgh, in fact.

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The idea of giving up is really alien to a sportsman who's all about winning at all costs.

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I don't think a forward has ever won a title for anyone. It's about the defence, how many goals you concede.

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I was with Jose Mourinho at Inter, and he said to me that I was 10 or 20 years behind. Whilst I was winning all of those trophies with Arsenal, he was learning how to be a coach.

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Teams who win World Cups usually have a real anchor, such as Sergio Ramos or Fabio Cannavaro.

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That back four - Lee Dixon, Steve Bould, Nigel Winterburn and myself - doesn't happen by luck. We worked hard on organisation. Morning and afternoon.

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I was the captain of the club so I made sure that I bullied basically everyone else.

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When you go into a football pitch expecting bad things to happen they usually do.

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This life is all we've got, mate. Right here, right now.

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Back in the day I said in an interview coaching wasn't Arsene's strong point.

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Perhaps Arsene thought I might be too challenging for him. He seemed to like an assistant such as Pat Rice or Steve Bould, both great club men who were not going to ruffle feathers. Arsene is so dominant that he was probably not going to like it if I said, 'We're conceding bad goals, I'm going to take the back four today and organise them.'

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I think Ozil, he's a very calm, sweet man, so don't judge him too quickly. He is a talent, and half the job of a head coach is getting the best out of that talent.

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That is the job of the coach to get the best out of his squad of players - not to avoid it and say: 'No good, don't want you.'

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