Harry Redknapp Quotes

Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.

You can't play football without having a good training pitch.

I had the good luck to have the experience of training with fantastic football players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Ozil, Modric, and I also played for Real Madrid B. That was a fantastic experience because it was my first international experience as a football player and taught me a lot as a football player.

In my perfect day, I wake up next to the woman of my dreams, and she's crying tears of joy because she's so excited about the life we have together. I'm preparing to compete in the 2016 Olympics with U.S.A. Team Handball, so I head to an intense training session with my coach to increase my physical strength and athleticism.

Even when I was training alone, just me and one of United's fitness coaches, I loved going onto the field, doing sprints, being at the training ground.

I am a fan of winter sports.

As a schoolboy I can recall playing three games a week and not even feeling it.

I have always been around sports my whole life.

When I lived in Hungerford, it was wake up 5:30 A.M., get to the van at 6 A.M. with eight other blokes, drive to Shinfield, which is in Reading, 45 minutes away. Start at 7:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M. with two half-hour breaks and then home. Train Tuesday and Thursday and then play on Saturday.

Instead of being like the other kids going to soccer or football practice, I was wrestling every day.

In Argentina, I trained in the mornings, and I played a lot of golf.

I've got a lot of very fond memories playing football from the ages of four.

I switch up between going to the gym or exercising outside to run around a track and the stairs of a stadium.

I think that's vitally important, that we get players playing at a younger age group.

My brother and I used to laugh and say, 'Normal kids went to day care, and we went to the gym.'

I believe it was seventh or eighth grade: I went to a Danny Ford football camp. A buddy of mine was a big Clemson fan, and coach Ford put on a camp, and we did actually enjoy ourselves.

I would have to be in a very different place in my life to coach basketball. I'll always work out and be in the gym.

I have a natural connection with Romelu. We stay most days after training and meet up to practice my crosses and him getting on the end of them. He is a top player, and he takes up the best positions for an old-fashioned winger like myself.

I work out in the morning before I join group training sessions with the team.

When I was eight, I went into a football school in my neighbourhood, and we played five a side on a little court.

An example of my average week would be the gym on Monday; Tuesday will be a technical session. I practice running and high jump on Thursday and then have another technical session at the weekend.

All of us at some point have been coached by a male cricketer. I strongly believe that they get a lot of intensity into the training sessions. They are very hard taskmasters.

I was a coach for a celebrity cricket league. Whenever I trained or practised with them, I missed cricket.

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.

My son, Laurier, and I love being outdoors. We like to ski and to skate, to play in the snow, and simply to walk and enjoy the winter scenery.