It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson. Gordon Strachan More Quotes by Gordon Strachan More Quotes From Gordon Strachan Paul Scholes has been the best England midfield player for 30-odd years. You'd probably have to go back to Bobby Charlton to find someone who could do as much as Scholes. When the ball arrives at his feet he could tell you where every player on that pitch is at that moment. His awareness is superb. Gordon Strachan player feet years If I was English I'd kill myself Gordon Strachan ifs People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish. Gordon Strachan team drinking lying The reality, ... is that I need to win games of football. That's where the pressure and the sleepless nights come from. There's a fantasy pressure with this job but none of that matters. I need to make this team into a good unit, need to take it forward, give it a change of pace, need to get it younger and to use the experience of the lads we've got here. I need Lennon and Sutton and people like that to go and show how you handle being a Celtic player. Gordon Strachan team jobs football I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh. Gordon Strachan goal football laughing Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players. Gordon Strachan player believe people I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve. Gordon Strachan guy player thinking He [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don't know who it was but it was crap. He played it on the team bus too, and all the boys hated it. Until one night it got chucked away. If he's still wondering who threw that tape off the bus, it was me. So maybe he was right and I'm not to be trusted. Gordon Strachan team night boys I want players who are always striving to improve. Gordon Strachan motivational inspirational football It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic. Gordon Strachan levels football years People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it. Gordon Strachan bad-press footballer people I'm not saying you have to be married to be a good footballer. I'm just saying it felt strange to come to a club where there are only three members of the first-team squad that are married. You need responsibility in life. Gordon Strachan responsibilities-in-life responsibility needs I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on. Gordon Strachan celtic two thinking I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family. Gordon Strachan football long people I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge. Gordon Strachan wrecks bridges home Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it. Gordon Strachan despair depth matter He could have done one of three things. He didn't do either. Gordon Strachan three done football It wasn't an easy decision to leave out Bobo, because I could have done that with two or three from the back four. But there's a limit to the players you have and the changes you can make. The reality is we're not defending well enough. But we just have to plug on. There's no magic formula. Gordon Strachan player two reality The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party. Gordon Strachan party winning two Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive. Gordon Strachan scotland nice football
