Chris Hughton Quotes

I think it's very tough to manage a club like United.

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

I knew Portuguese football and I knew that Rio Ave was a medium-sized club but I also knew they are organised off the pitch. We felt that we could achieve something special playing in a different way.

It is difficult to give time to develop projects in football. You buy the club, and you want the title after three months.

Everybody knows the Premier League is so difficult, we have to think step by step.

It's going to be an immense pleasure to work with Jose Mourinho, listen to him and learn from him.

You never stop learning in football management and I certainly believe the invaluable experience from my time as Villa manager will prove hugely beneficial in the next stage of my managerial career.

When a new coaching staff comes in, there are a lot of changes that happen with that.

It's not that you're not smart anymore; it's that you're unwilling to do it. Coaches who coach know what I'm talking about. You just keep battling to help your coaches and your players, to refine your scheme, to break down your opponent, to find ways to travel and take care of your players.

When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?

It's a great honour to be asked to be the next manager of Manchester United. I am delighted that Sir Alex saw fit to recommend me for the job. I have great respect for everything he has done and for the football club.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.

There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.

Arsene Wenger has got to unlock the purse strings

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

It would be wonderful if we could avoid the setbacks with timely exits, but nobody has figured out how to predict them.

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.

We have made mistakes! We were too late. If we had presented our national interests more clearly from the beginning, the world would still be in balance today.