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Graeme Souness Quotes
Graeme Souness Quotes
Graeme Souness
Scottish
Athlete
Born:
May 6
,
1953
Big
Game
Liverpool
People
You
Your
It's the one that the players fear. The No 1 is the ACL - the anterior cruciate ligament - closely followed by a real tear of the hamstring, because you know that's the one injury that kids you.
Graeme Souness
You
Fear
Kids
Followed
Know
Because
Real
Closely
Tear
Injury
Players
Anfield is a unique place to play on European nights.
Graeme Souness
Nights
Place
European
Unique
Play
When you play at home in European football, you've got to come up with a happy balance where you get on the front foot and try to win it without leaving yourself vulnerable.
Graeme Souness
Home
You
Balance
Happy
Yourself
Win
Try
Foot
Football
Come
Vulnerable
Without
Got
Leaving
Up
Get
Front
Where
European
Play
You've always got 20 per cent of a dressing room that won't be happy with their manager because they want to play more often. There are players who will have been moaning all year about not being in the team, but when they got their chance they failed to take it.
Graeme Souness
You
Be Happy
Happy
Will
Year
All Year
Per
Dressing
About
Dressing Room
More
Take
Failed
Because
Always
Got
Been
Moaning
Manager
Often
Being
Want
Cent
Room
Team
Who
Play
Players
Chance
In 2017, Kante has been fantastic and is almost two players at times. He covers every blade of grass and he's not short of technique. He would get in any team because there's room for that type of player no matter what system you play or level you play at.
Graeme Souness
You
Matter
Grass
Every
Type
System
Has-Been
Would
Blade
He
Almost
Because
Been
Covers
Times
Get
Any
Short
Room
Fantastic
Team
Play
Technique
Level
Player
Players
Two
You have to defend properly.
Graeme Souness
You
Properly
Defend
It's very hard to retain the Premier League.
Graeme Souness
Retain
League
Very
Hard
Premier
Premier League
I worked out long ago that I wasn't cut out for management. My personality doesn't lend itself to the job, especially what it's become. By the time I stopped, the good times weren't compensating for the bad.
Graeme Souness
Time
Good
Management
Personality
Job
Long
Become
Out
Bad
Good Times
Were
Itself
Times
Stopped
Lend
Cut
Worked
By The Time
What I miss about football is being in the dressing room. But do I miss three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon when matters are totally out of your hands? No, I don't. Do I miss placing my destiny in the hands of others? No, I don't. I loved it as a player. I liked it as a manager. But that's all come and gone.
Graeme Souness
Three
Matters
Gone
Others
Destiny
Out
Totally
Dressing
About
Dressing Room
Football
Miss
Come
Liked
Hands
Manager
Being
Loved
Afternoon
Placing
Room
Your
Saturday
Player
If you start spending big money, what you're ultimately judged on is how your buys perform.
Graeme Souness
You
Money
Big
Spending
Perform
Judged
How
Ultimately
Big Money
Your
Start
Buys
If you're going to be champions you've got to deal with the challenges that come along in many different ways.
Graeme Souness
You
Challenges
Ways
Along
Come
Deal
Got
Going
Different
Many
Different Ways
Champions
I'm a great believer that you cannot have enough senior pros around your dressing room.
Graeme Souness
Great
You
Enough
Great Believer
Dressing
Dressing Room
Pros
Around
Senior
Cannot
Room
Your
Believer
If you're scoring two goals at Stamford Bridge, it tells you that you are a player.
Graeme Souness
You
Goals
Tells
Scoring
Bridge
Player
Two
There's managers out there now who would love to have won a single trophy. The fact is the vast majority of them haven't. So I'm quite cool about what I did as a player and as a manager. Could I have done better, or differently? Of course. But that's all water that has flowed under the bridge; it doesn't cause me any sleepless nights.
Graeme Souness
Love
Me
Water
Better
Cause
Single
Nights
Sleepless
Sleepless Nights
Out
Would
About
Fact
Vast
Trophy
Vast Majority
Could
Majority
Course
Won
Did
Manager
Managers
Any
Done
Quite
Them
Who
Cool
Bridge
Now
Differently
Player
When you go into the really big games you look at your team and think 'where are we weak, where are we vulnerable.'
Graeme Souness
You
Big
Think
Weak
Look
Vulnerable
Go
Where
Really
Your
Games
Team
I can earn a great deal more money by playing football outside Scotland than I could in Scotland, but I'd still like to be player-manager of Rangers one day.
Graeme Souness
Day
Great
Money
Great Deal
Earn
Rangers
One Day
I Can
More
Could
Outside
Football
Like
Deal
Still
Scotland
Than
Playing
The world's best when I was growing up was Pele and he would have been a great player now, too, but Messi surpasses him.
Graeme Souness
Best
Great
World
Too
Pele
Would
Great Player
He
Him
Messi
Been
Up
Growing
Growing Up
Now
Player
When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.
Graeme Souness
Met
Books
Tends
Like
Read
Up
Person
Autobiographies
Famous
Famous Person
Them
Serious
I've never courted popularity.
Graeme Souness
Never
Courted
Popularity
I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.
Graeme Souness
Good
Memory
Good Things
Remember
Think
I Think
Say
I Can
Would
About
Only
Park
Selective
Know
Got
Dwell
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Lucky
Things
Some people can get there in three or four games, some need eight or nine, but after 11 games, if you've been playing regularly, you're match-fit.
Graeme Souness
You
People
Some People
Three
Nine
Some
Been
Get
Eight
After
Regularly
Games
Four
Playing
Need
I think I speak for all the pundits when I say we are just giving an opinion. I am asked to give an opinion based on my experiences in football and based on what I see out on the pitch.
Graeme Souness
Speak
I Am
Giving
Think
I Think
Say
Pundits
I See
Out
See
Give
Football
Opinion
Am
Pitch
Just
Experiences
Asked
Based
I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.
Graeme Souness
Focus
Pressure
First
Top
Slip
Put
Up
Afford
Being
Place
Again
Team
Who
Found
Second
Second Place
Both my parents were mild, gentle people.
Graeme Souness
People
Parents
Both
Both My Parents
Gentle
Were
Mild
If you win the Premier League it means you have managed the difficult moments of the season better than anyone else.
Graeme Souness
You
Win
Better
Difficult
Else
League
Than
Anyone
Anyone Else
Means
Premier
Premier League
Moments
Season
You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.
Graeme Souness
Life
You
Become
Rejection
Throughout
Shapes
Get
Your
Eventually
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