Quotes by Graham Taylor

About Graham Taylor:

Graham Taylor is the former Chairman of Watford Football Club, having formerly been a football pundit, football manager, and player. He was the manager of the England national football team from 1990 to 1993, as well as being manager of Watford, a club he took from the Fourth Division to the First in the space of five years, then from bottom of the second division to the Premier League in two seasons two decades later.
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Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

Graham Taylor

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

Graham Taylor

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

Graham Taylor

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.

Graham Taylor

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

Graham Taylor

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

Graham Taylor

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

Graham Taylor

In football, time and space are the same thing.

Graham Taylor

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.

Graham Taylor

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.

Graham Taylor

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

Graham Taylor

Author Bio

  • NameGraham Taylor
  • DescriptionEnglish association football player and manager
  • BornSeptember 15, 1944
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionAssociation Football Player
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire