Glenn Hoddle Quotes

At the end of the day, I'm a good defensive football coach.

When we are organised on the pitch, it is easier to play in defense.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will. Or I'll put myself in the best situation to do so.

If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

I probably visualize myself, the shots I'm going to get in the game, how I'm going to play defense, what we have to do to stop the other team's best player, what it's going to take out of me, the whole aspect of the game.

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

There's two sides to the game, and you have to do the ugly side as well. If you're getting beat, and you're conceding the goals that we're getting beaten by, then it's because you're not defending and shutting people down well enough.

I think there's a lot of different ways to score points and win football games and be efficient offensively, just like there is on defense and special teams. That's what makes this great game so special.

In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

I think as a central defender you grow as a player.

Our national team is very unique in the way we want to play.

Without a doubt, it is easier to produce a defensive soccer team, because it does not need you to have talent for it but simply to be well organised.

When you play the top sides you cannot afford to be as open as 4-4-2 can leave you. Consequently teams adapt their formation.

For me, the best defender I played against was Carles Puyol. He was my teammate, too, but my rival many times. Also, Roberto Ayala, the Argentinian centerback.

My first mind-set when I am out on the field is to defend well and not concede.

When you master all defensive and offensive aspects of the game and always enjoy the majority of possession, you're sitting in pole position to win.

Most teams won't really focus on one player because they've got multiple players to defend and that will open up a lot of things for me.

First of all, I am and I remain a goalkeeper, but I try to be involved as much as I can and to help the defenders. I try to read dangerous situations in advance.

The beginning of everything is our defensive organisation. The clean sheet is always the first objective that we have in the game. Always.