Graeme Souness Quotes

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Liverpool are a very hard team to beat in front of their own crowd.

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Continuity is what makes success, but it is all about getting over the humps on the road to that; that’s what football is all about.

Graeme Souness

I accept that I sometimes overstepped the mark, but I can tell you that, off the pitch, I’ve never been an overly aggressive person.

Graeme Souness

I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.

Graeme Souness

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

If you insist on playing Jorginho, who is neat and tidy but not a goal threat, you have to have goal threats on either side of him.

Graeme Souness

Don’t get me wrong, growing up in Edinburgh, I was all too familiar with the Hibs and Hearts rivalry. My father grew up in Leith – Hibee territory – just off of Easter Road on Albert Street.

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Historically, Jose Mourinho is not a manager who chops and changes his team and he‘s not big on rotation.

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I get why people didn’t like me, or don’t like me, because I have an arrogance.

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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.

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As you get older, I suppose, you get a bit more cautious in everything you do. But I’ve always been blessed with self-belief.

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If you are making mistakes at centre-back then inevitably that results in an effort on your goal and your goalkeeper has to make a save.

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It’s very difficult, when you’re in and out of the team as a player, to get any sort of rhythm.

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If you win the Premier League it means you have managed the difficult moments of the season better than anyone else.

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I’m not sure about Richarlison. I like him, I liked him when he was at Watford and he started well at Everton but would his preferred position be out on the left and cutting in? I’m not sure.

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Football is the most entertaining game in the world to watch because it’s end to end with lots of things happening.

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I came from a working class family. We lived in a prefab. We had nothing, but we had everything. I was out of the house at 12 to live with my grandmother, who was on her own, and I was expected to be the man about the house. At 15, I was living in digs in London after signing for Tottenham.

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I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

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People always have game plans to take care of Ronaldo, but very few people succeed in keeping him quiet for 90 minutes.

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For a lot of lads, they grow up going to matches with fathers or mates. Those Saturday or Sundays where you head over to the stadium probably with a scarf on – knowing every word, every clap and every pause to the supporters‘ chants.

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The stature of Liverpool means they want to win trophies.

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I was not satisfied at Rangers, not by a long way. I have hassles there, I had obstacles placed in front of me, and certain things never sat easily on my shoulders, and never will.

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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.

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I get frustrated with certain aspects of the game. But there’s things that delight me, it’s just the uncertainty of it all.

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I’ve played at Anfield and you can look at The Kop and there are blue pockets all over. It’s another level in Glasgow.

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Benteke is a threat when he’s fit, fully motivated and firing on all cylinders.

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You can’t win any trophies unless you’ve got a top goalkeeper.

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When you talk about those Liverpool greats, they had players who won everything. Some great team men, great goalscorers, longevity.

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If you start spending big money, what you’re ultimately judged on is how your buys perform.

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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.

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Liverpool will always be a very special place to me.

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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.

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You can Google how many goals a player has scored in the last few seasons, or against this particular side, but our job is to point the viewers to something that is happening in the game that they may not have seen or thought of.

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I first learned what a rivalry really was at White Hart Lane.

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Mark Viduka, Nicolas Anelka and Michael Owen are all top strikers and the facts speak for themselves.

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The strikers are the ones that normally go for big, big money because they’re the ones who decide the games, nine times out of 10.

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If you’re going to be champions you’ve got to deal with the challenges that come along in many different ways.

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You don’t get a manager’s job at a big club unless it is in a mess.

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As a manager, when you can’t get your first target do you go and spend on your second, third, fourth choice?

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I don’t think anybody is looking at Mario Balotelli and thinking ‘I’m going to work as hard as him.’

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I joined Liverpool in 1978. I was the record signing between English clubs.

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I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.

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I’m a great believer that you cannot have enough senior pros around your dressing room.

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Both my parents were mild, gentle people.

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I was always – and I have no idea where it came from – a confident boy. And when I look at how I’ve lived my life that’s how I’ve lived it.

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My career has been the best part of 50 years. If I had to go through it all again, I’d love to, warts and all. There have been so many good things that they outweigh the bad. But I do have regrets.

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I don’t really socialise in the football world.

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I think you find Liverpool fans are extremely passionate, as are Evertonians, but I think it goes to another level in Glasgow.

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If players cannot see what’s going on in a game and adapt then they are no good and they will not win anything.

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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.

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You have to defend properly.

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The crowd are more understanding at Anfield than at any other football ground.

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You can’t look into a crystal ball but what you can say is if money is put on the table and you get half your signings right then you are going to be better next time around.

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When you go into the really big games you look at your team and think ‘where are we weak, where are we vulnerable.’

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No one’s career is full of highs. Somewhere down the line you are going to get kicked where it hurts and it’s how you deal with that.

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Apart from actually playing football, I am at my most happiest with either my dogs, or planting in the garden.

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I worry for Scottish football.

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It’s very easy for people to overlook how important a good goalkeeper is in a team.

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If you came to my house you would not think an ex-footballer lived there. I’ve got nothing on the walls or the shelves from my time in the game.

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I think if you’re raising your foot high whether it’s an overhead kick or not, you’re risking a red card.

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I’ve won something like 27 trophies in my lifetime. There are people out there who are very good players and yet they’ve won nothing. I won 10 trophies in three different countries as a manager: I’ve got nothing to prove. I’ve done it.

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We need to take good care of football’s image.

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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.

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You can talk about systems until you’re blue in the face but that’s secondary – if you’re closing down, if you’re first to the ball, it doesn’t really matter what system you’ve got.

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You never forget when you beat – or when you lose – to your city rival.

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If you’re scoring two goals at Stamford Bridge, it tells you that you are a player.

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