Graham Taylor Football Quotations

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

Footballers are no different from human beings.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

I'd never allow myself to let myself call myself a coward.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.

Very few great goals actually go in.

Is he ever going to learn?

If it stays as it is I can't see it altering.

His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not. (on David Beckham)

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."