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They're human beings before they're footballers and it's important to understand how can I help them. What do they need? How can they feel part of this? How can they feel they're improving in their career, because my job is to help them get better, play better football, earn a better contract, whatever it is.
Graham Potter
Better
Job
Important
Before
Whatever
Earn
Football
Part
Feel
Footballers
Because
Understand
How
Contract
Get
Improving
Human
Human Beings
Them
Help
Beings
Play
Career
Need
But concepts around how a team functions, the importance of the relationship between football and the person, how you develop both, are always valid.
Graham Potter
Relationship
You
Valid
Both
Develop
Football
Between
Importance
Concepts
Around
Always
How
Person
Team
Functions
We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes of the players and play to their strengths.
Graham Potter
Positive
You
Try
Defensively
Positive Way
Way
Football
Look
Attributes
Any
Organised
Team
Play
Play Football
Players
Strengths
When it is 1-0 and you have been dominant and you have restricted the home team to pretty much nothing, if you do not score the second goal then that is football. Any action can happen in the game.
Graham Potter
Home
You
Game
Nothing
Action
Pretty
Restricted
Football
Been
Goal
Score
Dominant
Any
Happen
Then
Much
Team
Second
Any coach in my era will reference or look at Guardiola's teams. If you look at the style of play, he has had a huge influence on football. And he has innovated it again.
Graham Potter
You
Will
Style
Had
Football
He
Look
Era
Reference
Huge
Huge Influence
Any
Influence
Again
Coach
Teams
Play
I got a job as a football development manager which meant I could coach the students and work with the sports sciences department, all the people in university sector.
Graham Potter
Work
Sports
People
Job
Sector
Could
Students
Football
Development
Sciences
Got
Department
Manager
Which
Coach
Meant
University
You make mistakes at the results end of football and you can be out on your ear pretty quickly.
Graham Potter
You
Mistakes
Out
Pretty
Results
Football
Make
End
Quickly
Your
Ear
Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.
Graham Roberts
Game
Kicked
Bit
Football
Them
Us
Skill
I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.
Graham Roberts
Work
Work Hard
Week
Football
Part-Time
Hours
Hard
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
Time
You
Discipline
Club
Out
Inside
Inside-Out
Week
Football
Over
Know
Staff
Them
Your
Games
Preparing
Players
Two
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
Needs
Think
Those
Charge
Seem
Football
Supporters
Without
Them
Roots
Connection
I like to play football. I'm an aggressive player and also a leader.
Granit Xhaka
Leader
Aggressive
Football
Like
Also
Play
Play Football
Player
My dad played football, too, in the former Yugoslavia.
Granit Xhaka
Too
Football
Former
Yugoslavia
Dad
Played
I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success.
Greg Akcelrod
Success
Work
Time
Good
Great
You
Work Hard
Will
Become
Think
Everything
Hundred
Must
Percent
Give
Good Thing
Football
Football Player
Great Success
Want
Hard
Professional
Lucky
Thing
Player
But my biggest passion is football.
Greg Akcelrod
Passion
Football
Biggest
There's definitely football in the blood, but my body made my decision for me that I was going to be an Olympic athlete instead.
Greg Rutherford
Me
Decision
Made
Definitely
Athlete
Football
Instead
Blood
Going
Body
Olympic
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
Gregg Easterbrook
Entertainment
Sports
Example
Think
Football
Form
Use
Professional
Professional Sports
Fundamentally
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.
Gregg Easterbrook
Book
Gift
Face
Before
Nice
Guards
Football
Pictures
Were
Very
Done
Little
Company
Illustrated
Actually
I grew up going to football games with my dad and we were just sports fanatics.
Gretchen Whitmer
Sports
Football
Football Games
Were
Up
Going
Just
Grew
Fanatics
Games
Dad
In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
H. G. Bissinger
Education
College
Higher Education
Argument
Spent
Presumably
College Football
More
Purpose
Higher
Football
Primary
Studying
Academics
Issue
Hear
Years
Than
Anything
Convincing
There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.
H. G. Bissinger
Dangers
General
Football
Head
Over
Caused
Repetitive
Hits
Trauma
Medical
I actually like football a great deal.
H. G. Bissinger
Great
Great Deal
Football
Like
Deal
Actually
Leaving a legacy beyond just playing football has become extremely important to me.
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
Me
Important
Become
Extremely
Football
Beyond
Leaving
Legacy
Just
Playing
Football just isn't that complicated.
Hank Stram
Complicated
Football
Just
J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.
Hannah Storm
Life
Kindness
Sports
School
Word
Hero
Sense
Every
Those
Out
High
High School
Seeks
Guy
Football
He
Football Games
Houston
His
Than
Newest
Games
Who
Actively
Larger
Need
I grew up in Vermont, so we didn't really have a TV, growing up, or a football team.
Hannah Teter
TV
Football
Football Team
Vermont
Up
Grew
Really
Team
Growing
Growing Up
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