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Quotes by Coach

"Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it."

"Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident."

"We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal!"

"Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both."

"I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region."

"I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables."

"I think the National League has better biorhythms in July."

"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special."

"And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too."

"It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result."

"So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion."

"Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens."

"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish."

"I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between."

"I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere."

"Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third."

"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."

"How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win."

"The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back."

"Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy."

"Its the name on the front of the jersey that matters most, not the one on the back."

"Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball."

"If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that."

"At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions."

"Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe."

"In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents."

"I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things."

"At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence."
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