Alan Hansen Scottish Quotations

What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.

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

If you come up and are struggling after three months you need the money to be able to buy somebody who can give you a bit of impetus.

The media want the stories and the television companies want the stories and the papers want the story and means that it is everyday.

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.

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

Scottish football has been in the doldrums for a long time and it has been a timely boost Walter coming in and following it up with the result against the Italians,

The problem England have got is that if they don't win the group they will play the French and if they play them, they will be beaten.

We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!

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 don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it.

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

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

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

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

I've watched the current squad three or four times and I think that survival will be the first aim, but Keegan has got this way about him.