Quotes from Graham Taylor

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

In football, time and space are the same thing.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell money.

I always dreamed of playing for the UK since I grew a huge UK fan but once I started visiting schools I fell in love with Miami University and decided it was the right place for me.

It's the only way we can lose, irrespective of the result.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

I was just saying to your colleague, the referee has got me the sack, thank him ever so much for that, won't you?

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.