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Quotes from Harry Kewell

What bothers me is when my players don't train well.
~ Harry Kewell
To be able to get a young player to perform a drill or execute a phase of play - that's satisfying. I get happy and think he's learned, and that's what I enjoy.
~ Harry Kewell
I was always a player who asked questions, and it wasn't to be cheeky or rude, but I always wanted to know what the manager wanted.
~ Harry Kewell
In my line of work I have respect, that's it. Plain and simple. And I follow orders. I do my job on the park and I do my job off the park.
~ Harry Kewell
Honestly, I love coaching far more than I ever did playing.
~ Harry Kewell
No, I don't miss playing. I love coaching that much. Maybe if we're short of a player in training I would make the numbers up, but that is as far it goes.
~ Harry Kewell
I don't think people saw me as a coach. But as a player I concentrated a lot on playing the game and I was always interested in the thinking side of football and speaking to managers about why they would pick a certain formation or play people in certain positions.
~ Harry Kewell
My passion for coaching is immense. I've fallen in love with it. I enjoy the structure. I love the hard work, organising. I love putting a plan together through the week and executing it at the weekend.
~ Harry Kewell
You will make a mistake in a game, fair enough, but you want your team-mates to help you out because it is a team game.
~ Harry Kewell
I never doubted my football, it's just a lot of things happened that prohibited me from playing.
~ Harry Kewell
It was a great learning curve because I knew I could put on a session, but I couldn't set out cones straight! That's one of the hardest things to do in coaching, little things like that to be able to prepare a session properly.
~ Harry Kewell
When you sit players in front of doctors and surgeons, they use big, fancy words, and sometimes players get lost. It's hard to digest. But when you've been there and you can break it down into 'football language,' they can understand it better.
~ Harry Kewell
I have always liked being under the radar. Work hard and do well. That is why people talk about you.
~ Harry Kewell
We're like on a rollercoaster and I don't like that because a sign of a good team is consistency, and consistency is a work ethic and it's about producing that standard, and if you can produce that standard week in, week out, whether you win or lose, that's a different thing.
~ Harry Kewell
If my players work hard during the week, then I have no problem about the weekend because I know they are ready.
~ Harry Kewell
The first team play in a certain way and when players are thrown into the first team you want to make sure they can handle it, and I think five of my players made their debut in the Premier League.
~ Harry Kewell
When I was playing, some people said I was a luxury player, but I was just a hard worker.
~ Harry Kewell
My career started off under George Graham, a general. Even though we had big name players, he would walk into a dressing room and people would shut up. I worked with Gerard Houllier too.
~ Harry Kewell
I'm not silly enough to not understand that if you lose 10 games in a row, very rarely are you safe in a job.
~ Harry Kewell
I went into a club who were sitting dead last in League Two, then I got them out of the relegation zone within 10 games, only to then get the sack... I don't get it.
~ Harry Kewell
When I decided to join Galatasaray, obviously there were a few Leeds fans who were disappointed. The reason why I came to Galatasaray was maybe to bring these clubs together, where we can forget what happened in the past and move on.
~ Harry Kewell
I still get a lot of stick from Leeds fans which is unfortunate because Leeds is very close to me. It was one of the best clubs I ever played for. They gave me the start and I had a fantastic time there.
~ Harry Kewell
I'm a big dreamer. You might as well go to the top. You want to dream big, you dream big.
~ Harry Kewell
I loved Leeds but I also loved Galatasaray.
~ Harry Kewell