Quotes from Roy Hodgson

As far as I know, Fulham were never for sale during my time there. Mohamed Al Fayed never wanted to sell Fulham.

I can get by quite well in Italian or German, though if the discussion got to a high level, I'd run out of vocabulary. I'm stronger in French and Swedish.

In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking in the shadows to bash you over the head when you least expect it.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

The reality of football rests on that patch of green between 90 and 95 minutes. Whichever team is going to win has to do it on the field of play and by scoring more goals than the opposition.

Brazil is a fantastic football country.

If success is about winning the league, there will always be 19 disappointed clubs.

Everywhere I've managed, I've left a platform for my successor to build on, and this is a great satisfaction for me, even if I don't necessarily get the recognition for it.

All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don't go their way late in life as they did early in life.

I like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Richard Yates.

I don't own photograph albums - the pictures that are important to me are etched in my mind.

There is so much interaction in a football match: between you and your team-mates and how you support each other, work for each other, make runs. But I also enjoy the other aspect: the pressing and how people work so hard to recover the ball.

Hugh Grant is about the only actor I've met who has taken any proper interest in football, being a big Fulham supporter. But he'd be far too good-looking to play me in any film.

It hasn't always been a Premier League ride for Crystal Palace supporters. They're there to support us through the hard times.

We all saw it coming. Arsenal's youth policy has always been very good.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

Anyone who watches football and watches Tottenham play would have to be an admirer of the way they play football and the way they go about their business.

I have been in football a long time, and Wayne Rooney has been in football a long time. He would regard me as someone who is very false if I ever said to him, 'Your place is guaranteed.' He would not expect it, and I would be very upset anyway if anyone asked me to give them a guarantee of a place.

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

Systems win you nothing, and football players win you games.

The Premier League is what it is. Some people will see the intensity and quality as a great advantage for your players: it will make them better. Some will see it as a disadvantage because the players play at such a high level and such intensity, it's difficult for them to drum that up, that intensity, with a very short space of rest time.

I don't think you sign a four-year contract in the Premier League and then go to China at the age of 26.

I don't like talking about not getting what you deserve, because that has no part to play in football. You get what you get.