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If I was English I'd kill myself
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
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I want players who are always striving to improve.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Inspirational
Motivational
Football
Striving
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He could have done one of three things. He didn't do either.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Done
Football
Three
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Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Football
Soccer
Winning
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If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Asking
Football
Soccer
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Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Believe
Good People
People
Player
Good Believe Me
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Everybody at Barcelona loves Messi. They can't speak highly of him.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Barcelona
Messi
Speak
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People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Bad Press
Deserve
Footballer
People
Footballers
People Bad Talk
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Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Clue
Ideas
Martians
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I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Football
Goal
Laughing
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I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Football
Long
People
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I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Politicians
Financially
Foremost
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I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Home
Bridges
Wrecks
Bridge
Crumble
Go Home
Jump
Wreck
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I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Important Things
Today
Yogurt
Date
Today Important More
Finish
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I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Football
Soccer
Thinking
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It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Celtic
Decent
Football
Levels
Years
Great Football Me
Manager
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Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Football
Hands
Thinking
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All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Home
Knows
Player
Nowadays
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The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Party
Two
Winning
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You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Cutting
People
Wife
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It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Funny Football
Incredibles
Soccer
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Arsene Wenger was talking about comparisons with Johan Cruyff, a player who only comes around every 10 years and Thierry Henry is definitely one of those
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Player
Talking
Years
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I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Champions League
Guarantees
League
Manchester
Taken
Team
Nowhere
Billion
Champions
Spend
Million
Near
Teams
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Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Depth
Despair
Matter
You Can Do It
Depths
Forward
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I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Celtic
Thinking
Two
Versus
Me Who Two
One Or Two
Personal Thing
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I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Integrity
Sticks
Years
Questioned
Stick
The One Thing
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People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Drinking
Lying
Team
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I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Media
Overlooked
People
Thinking
Achieved
Done People Bad
All People
Manager
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I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Jobs
Imagination
Celtic
Enthusiasm
Coach
Joined
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Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Alive
Football
Heartbeat
Nice
Scotland
Up And Down
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The reason I became a manager was to have full control over training. If you are a coach, you are bound by what the manager wants you to coach. The other reason is that I just like the company of football people.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Football
People
Training
Coach
Manager
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Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Fitness
Armstrong
Curves
Exercise
Moving
Nutrition
Opposite
Curve
Enter
Lance Armstrong
Shape
Wherever
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I'm not saying you have to be married to be a good footballer. I'm just saying it felt strange to come to a club where there are only three members of the first-team squad that are married. You need responsibility in life.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Needs
Responsibilities In Life
Responsibility
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I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Sports
Feelings
Fulfilling
If I Could
Scotland
Politicians
Financially
Foremost
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I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Football
Numbers
Soccer
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I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Guy
Player
Response
Thinking
Coach
Striving
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I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Church
Horse
Mum
Newspapers
Standards
Tabloids
Whereas
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It wasn't an easy decision to leave out Bobo, because I could have done that with two or three from the back four. But there's a limit to the players you have and the changes you can make. The reality is we're not defending well enough. But we just have to plug on. There's no magic formula.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Player
Reality
Two
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People think I've got a problem with the press. Actually I have no problem with the press, but just like in football there are a handful who cause problems because they're disrespectful, they're lazy, and above all - and this is what really gets to me - they haven't worked hard to get there.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Disrespectful
Handful
Lazy
No Problem
Football Me People
Above
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Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Feet
Player
Years
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He [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don't know who it was but it was crap. He played it on the team bus too, and all the boys hated it. Until one night it got chucked away. If he's still wondering who threw that tape off the bus, it was me. So maybe he was right and I'm not to be trusted.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Boys
Night
Team
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The reality, ... is that I need to win games of football. That's where the pressure and the sleepless nights come from. There's a fantasy pressure with this job but none of that matters. I need to make this team into a good unit, need to take it forward, give it a change of pace, need to get it younger and to use the experience of the lads we've got here. I need Lennon and Sutton and people like that to go and show how you handle being a Celtic player.
Gordon Strachan / Soccer Player
Jobs
Football
Team
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