Best quotes by Graham Potter on Football

Checkout quotes by Graham Potter on Football

• ‟ Ostersund has marketed itself as a winter city. But that's changing now, with the success of the football team.

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• ‟ I played football because I loved the game - but I didn't enjoy the focus on not making mistakes and the culture being essentially one of blame and a little fear.

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• ‟ I was used to football supporters hammering me and I thought my name was Graham Potter-Boo at one point.

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• ‟ But concepts around how a team functions, the importance of the relationship between football and the person, how you develop both, are always valid.

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• ‟ We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes of the players and play to their strengths.

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• ‟ I was at Leeds Carnegie, the ninth tier. And I was coaching students. There would have been hundreds of managers with more experience. So I had to go to the fourth tier of Swedish football, pretty much in the Arctic circle.

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• ‟ People think that coaching is about winning football matches - which, of course, it is - but throughout my career it has also been about helping people become better, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football pitch.

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• ‟ I needed to learn to be a coach initially. I think if I'd gone into professional football when I stopped playing when I was 30 years old I'd have failed because I'd have made too many mistakes because I had no real idea at that time.

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• ‟ They're human beings before they're footballers and it's important to understand how can I help them. What do they need? How can they feel part of this? How can they feel they're improving in their career, because my job is to help them get better, play better football, earn a better contract, whatever it is.

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• ‟ When it is 1-0 and you have been dominant and you have restricted the home team to pretty much nothing, if you do not score the second goal then that is football. Any action can happen in the game.

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• ‟ Any coach in my era will reference or look at Guardiola's teams. If you look at the style of play, he has had a huge influence on football. And he has innovated it again.

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• ‟ I got a job as a football development manager which meant I could coach the students and work with the sports sciences department, all the people in university sector.

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• ‟ From a football perspective, putting young footballers into art, or singing - you're doing something that's not so familiar. It has helped us build a team and build a spirit.

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• ‟ You make mistakes at the results end of football and you can be out on your ear pretty quickly.

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• ‟ My situation, and my opportunity, was the fourth tier in Swedish football and a place that nobody really wanted to go to. Of course it's turned out well for me.

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