Alan Hansen quotes:

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  • In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

  • Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.

  • It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.

  • I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

  • Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.

  • I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.

  • I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

  • The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

  • Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

  • The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

  • I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

  • The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

  • The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!

  • The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

  • I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

  • I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

  • Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.

  • Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

  • I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club.

  • Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.

  • Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.

  • These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.

  • I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

  • When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.

  • I was surprised, the triple-stack package produced eight to 15 more bushels.

  • You'll never win anything with kids

  • The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

  • Speed is what makes the Premiership exciting. The millions who would have watched Manchester United and Chelsea would have seen a non-stop game in which the pace was electric even though the first half was a non-event. You could see a better technical game in Spain but for sheer frenetic movement there is nothing that comes close... Pace is more critical in the Premiership than in any other major league and if you don't have pace, you have to compensate with power or ability in the air and since Shevchenko has no power and is not particularly good in the air, he is in trouble.

  • He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

  • I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

  • I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.

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