Quotes from Glenn Hoddle

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.

He was a player that hasn't had to use his legs even when he was nineteen years of age because his first two yards were in his head.

The only thing I can think of was an incident one day when I did get angry with the substitutes for talking behind the goal while we were practising free-kicks - I told them to pay attention because we might need them during the match. That was something I always insisted on.

Michael Owen could be Sir Alex's best ever buy, even though he didn't buy him

I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.

Football's all about 90 minutes