Scottish - Athlete | February 9, 1957 -
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I want players who are always striving to improve.
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I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.
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Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.
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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.
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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.
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People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.
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You need responsibility in life.
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