Tony Adams Quotes

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Tony Adams

Profession : Manager

Birth : October 10, 1966

I regret my own parents not teaching me to cook.

Tony Adams

I just think he's been the most successful Arsenal manager of all time. I don't want that spoiled and I see signs that he's incredibly addicted to football. I don't see that he's got a life outside of it. I just don't want him to go on too long and for it to crumble and end in tears, and all of us don't like Arsene. It would be so sad.

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Talking therapy saved my life.

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Childhood trauma is childhood trauma, whether you're a player or a forklift driver. They are the same feelings, and there are the same solutions.

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I think business is more dysfunctional than sport. I thought the sports world was. It's quite interesting.

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I noted all these businesses with massive turnovers and huge profits were not taking responsibility for their workers' mental health and addiction issues. There is a bit of tick-box exercising going on in companies with HR and managers, getting the legal side covered, so they're not in danger of doing anything wrong.

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I don't actually like people.

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I'm a loner and if I had my way I'd just walk my dogs every day, never talk to anyone and then die.

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I'd love it if I had a nutty aunt or a nutty grandad.

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I have a quick mind. Arsene Wenger always said that.

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I am a bit of a freak. Only 10 per cent get 10 years sobriety.

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Wherever you take yourself in this world, you've got to take yourself with you.

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Football coaching and the management profession is being ripped apart by owners and chief executives.

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I've found that staying open to different cultures and not forcing your opinions on other people goes a long way.

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Chongqing has restaurants with Western food and shops, so no problem living here. It helps that their fans are the best in the whole of China, respectful to the team and coach, and cheer in great numbers.

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Gabala was a remote, little village in the Caucasus, and that experience has helped me a great deal.

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My alcoholism was an illness. It was in my DNA, my genes. Both my parents were addicts and I have an addictive personality.

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To be a footballer you have to be a certain type, you have to walk that tightrope near the addictive gene to make it into the pro game. It is unhealthy the way you have to push yourself and your body.

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In 1987, I was captain of Arsenal and England's centre-half. I walked down Oxford Street and not one person bothered me. Not one. Today I would be mobbed and asked for selfies. That has brought a level of fear to today's player and with that fear he has become detached from reality and the public.

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My mistakes have made me who I am today.

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