Top 70 Harry Redknapp Quotes

I write like a two-year-old, and I can’t spell.

If I could help someone somewhere, help a young manager, I’d love that. I did it at Derby with Darren Wassall and had a great time.

I see it every week – parents shouting and screaming at kids. My dad was the same. He was always there, but he never interfered. Ron Greenwood, who was the manager of West Ham when I was a kid, wouldn’t allow any parent to shout from the touchline. He thought players should be allowed to think for themselves.

Two wide men stuck out wide leave you very open in midfield, but it’s a strength as well. Going forward, it makes you pretty dangerous to anyone.

Southampton is my last job. I might have said it before, but this time, I really mean it.

I’ve still got a scrapbook at home of the Munich air crash. I was an Arsenal supporter, and I went with my dad every week. I would have been 11 in 1958 and remember standing at Highbury for the Busby Babes. I remember that was the last game before they jetted off to Europe, and a lot of them never came back.

When I was a kid, there used to be a family section in every club where it would be all kids. That stopped.

Nobody at the FA has ever explained why I was overlooked and not even asked for an interview.

I have never written a letter in my life.

The fans pay good money to watch their team, so they are entitled to their opinion.

I don’t think it can be in the genes. If you see the amount of footballers, how many sons play football? Not many.

When I was a kid, all our seaside holidays were spent on Canvey Island or in Clacton-on-Sea.

I’ve heard of Francis Drake and Ted Drake. But I don’t know who Drake is.

When I left Portsmouth, I was happy. I’d had a great two years there, but I wanted a break. I needed a break.

Football wears you out, and when things are not going well, it’s not enjoyable.

I have been around football all my life, and it doesn’t happen. It never enters my mind. I don’t think, ‘Oh, what’s going to happen to me at the end of the season?’ Whatever happens to me, happens.

I could write a book – if I could write, ha ha – about how many times I’ve been ripped off lending money to people. I’m an absolutely unbelievable soft touch. Unbelievable. I never learn my lesson.

The players don’t sit in there and think, ‘We have to make the Champions League.’ They want to play well in every game.

There’re plenty of good people in football – mostly players and managers.

I’ve been around a long time. I’ve seen it all before.

Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player.

There’s only so much you can say to any group of players before they stop listening.

When I was a player, you only left the club if they wanted to get rid of you. That was your team – if you were at West Ham, you didn’t leave until the manager wanted to replace you. You didn’t think about playing for Arsenal or Chelsea.

Dave Mackay was one of the best I’ve ever seen. Jimmy Greaves was the greatest goal scorer, and George Best was just the best. The greatest.

I would love to work with a young and upcoming coach somewhere and give him some experience. Something like Gerry Francis overseeing Tony Pulis.

I am not a 34-year-old manager trying to make my way in the game; I have been around a long time.

I am a fantastic football manager, not a hard-headed businessman.

I love what I do; I want to continue doing it, I work hard at my job.

I can’t work a computer.

I’ve enjoyed my time at every club I have worked at, I’ve been lucky, but I won’t jump in and finish up working with a chairman I didn’t like very much.

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don’t understand that only one team can win the league.

Luka Modric could get into almost any team.

I’m useless around the house.

Am I scared of anything? Yeah, everything.

We are givers, not takers.

I am a worrier.

I went to the worst school you’ve ever seen.

I was fortunate to spend the Sixties working for one of the greatest football minds this country has ever produced: Ron Greenwood.

I’ve got no business acumen whatsoever.

I don’t fear the sack, but I take results home with me. And when I don’t win… I am no use to anybody because I get low.

I don’t live my life feeling bitter about anything. I’ve been so lucky. I’ve had such a great life.

On the night of June 30, 1990, a minibus in which I was travelling was involved in a head-on collision on a road near Latina, in the region of Lazio, near Rome.

I very much doubt that it could happen again that any manager would do 20 years with a top Premiership club.

Despite all that has happened in his career since, one of the biggest regrets of my life in management is not taking Luis Suarez to Tottenham when we had the chance.

I am not a tax fiddler. I am not any kind of tax fiddler, never have been in my life.

I have brought up a fantastic family.

To me, there’s no point in having confrontation for the sake of it.

Ryan Giggs just had an athlete’s physique. He could run all day.

My mum and dad never went abroad for a holiday. My dad was overseas in the war but never thought about going anywhere like the Mediterranean after that, so my mum died without ever having been on a plane or abroad.

All my mates are West Ham supporters; I went there at 15.

Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn’t make it.

I don’t know what goes on in prison. I’ve never been in trouble with the police in my life.

I love animals, all animals – apart from cats. I’m a little bit scared of cats.

For me, sitting there, watching them pass the ball, watching them train – you want to be around good players.

No one is more of a fan of the game than me: my son is a player.

Losing produces a weird reaction in me. I surrender all sense of perspective. It’s ridiculous, really. All this over a football match.

You shouldn’t be paying massive wages when you’ve got a stadium that holds 18,000 people.

I don’t know what an email is.

Show me someone who has never made a mistake in their life, and I’ll show you a liar. It happens.

I just thought Spurs were a challenge that I had to take on.

I’ve got no hobbies – a game of golf every now and again, but that’s it.

I have never sent a fax, and I’ve never even sent a text message.

I can’t write – I don’t even know how to punctuate.

I told Birmingham I don’t want nothing, I’m not interested in the money.

Lots of people do that silly tweeting.

I’m a realist.

Roy Race was a comic book hero, and Steven Gerrard is a real-life one.

I don’t think I can eat emu.

If you buy too many bad players, you don’t last in this game.

I am completely and utterly disorganised.