Tony Adams Quotes

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Tony Adams

Profession : Manager

Birth : October 10, 1966

I kept a notebook on the opposition guys because there was only something like five live games on TV per year.

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When I finished up at Arsenal in 2002, aged 36, I was asked if I fancied a season at Rangers but I would have just been picking up money. Besides I wanted to be remembered as a one-club man.

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I think management has passed me by.

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I'm not sure I'm cut out to be a manager. I like to be loved too much.

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I think Arsene Wenger is a magnificent physiologist and psychologist. Those are the areas where he excels. He's a lovely man and he has the respect of all the players he's ever worked with.

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Alex Ferguson wanted to sign me twice, just before Arsene Wenger came to the club. I was ready for a change and he was on to me every day.

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I admire Arsene for sticking to his financial principles, although I wish tactically he could get the balance right between defence and attack.

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Arsene's a gift, he really is a gift. He's got his faults, like all of us, but he's a pure joy to work for.

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Back in '86, '87, Steve Williams and Paul Davis and me were reading a book by Robert Hess called 'Eat to Win,' and, you know, that's what we were doing, chewing for victory.

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There have been really special people over the years I have loved to bits.

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I wasn't ready for school as a kid. The only thing I wanted to do was play football.

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Psychology, physiology, the biomechanics of the human being and how to get the best out of sportsmen all fascinate me.

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I learned football and life through hard knocks.

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I have to do a daily programme of meditation as part of my recovery, reflecting every morning and evening.

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At AA meetings I sit next to actors, musicians, journalists, bankers - not people living on the street. There's a lot of similarities in these industries. We're talking about obsessed people, control freaks.

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Sportspeople are competitive and want to be the best. That doesn't make us special and different - but we are! If we mess up, there's going to be somebody better come along and take our job.

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I go to my local football league team - Forest Green - and it's a working-class environment, which is what football was when I was growing up.

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I am passionate about working with everyone in the sport to raise the profile of mental health, wellness and resilience, for players and for everyone in Rugby League.

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Pires could run faster with the ball than I could without the ball.

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Smith Rowe has got real talent. He plays everything with one touch. He's intelligent and seems to know where the ball is going before he even receives it.

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