Tony Adams Quotes

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Tony Adams

Profession : Manager

Birth : October 10, 1966

Arsene Wenger threw up a whole different way of managing through love, with kindness, consideration and compassion.

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I loved my parents to bits but they were from a very different generation.

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I had a lot of mother issues, sister issues. My mother was quite a large woman, so that affected my romances.

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People think because you give up the booze you become boring and glum, but there is humour.

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You always bring players in better than the ones you've got or don't bring them to the club.

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Year in, year out the best goalkeeper wins the League.

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We used to fume if we didn't keep a clean sheet. It was what we were paid for.

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Great keepers and centre-backs were what the English were brought up on.

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Ozil for me is one of the best creative players in the world. What he struggles with at times is the defensive side.

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To win the league we need great players, like Dennis Bergkamp.

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I would love to see Ozil in behind feeding Aubameyang all day long.

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You've got to walk on to that football pitch so positive, 'we're the best team in the country, we're going to prove to everybody we're fantastic players.'

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For me, you're a player, you play for the Arsenal, you represent the club, you perform to your 100 per cent.

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We've had some wonderful players and wonderful principles under Arsene Wenger.

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I had won four trophies by the time I was 25.

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I used to play with Steve Bould. We used to play zonal defence. Steve was a zonal defender and he knew how that system worked. Playing with Martin Keown was different. He was a man-to-man marker and when I used to play with Martin, I used to play differently alongside him.

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For me, Mertesacker is a zonal defender and Koscielny is a man-to-man marker. They got to know each other's game because they played with each other week in, week out.

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Aaron Ramsey is too good to let go, and to not be an Arsenal player for ever.

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You perceive someone when you are playing against them very differently to how they are off the pitch.

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