The bonding of the team is exceptionally important and trying to create a good team spirit and to have some fun. Sam Allardyce More Quotes by Sam Allardyce More Quotes From Sam Allardyce There is a lot of pressure at first when you first take over a club that's struggling but you want to go and do your best for yourself, your family and the club that employ you. Sam Allardyce yourself best you family I want to be able to savour life while I'm still relatively young and when I'm still relatively healthy enough to do all the things I want to do, like travel, spend more time with my family and grandchildren without the huge pressure that comes with being a football manager. Sam Allardyce family time football life If a better player comes along, I will try to persuade the club to get him in. Sometimes, you can do your business and all of a sudden something appears that you never expected to appear. Sam Allardyce better you business sometimes There's always that time in football where people say that when you have the dip, it's how well do you overcome it. And when you do overcome it, you then end up being a much better player and generally your career lasts a lot longer after getting through that period. Sam Allardyce you time football people You have to keep control mentally when you go a goal down. Sam Allardyce control down go you The more goals you concede ultimately results in the bottom three, not the more goals you score. Sam Allardyce goals you results three Defending is an art, everybody has forgotten it. Sam Allardyce defending everybody forgotten art I coach defending an awful lot but I don't think too many teams in the Premier League or in the world of football actually coach defending anymore, certainly not the full-backs. Sam Allardyce coach think football world Football today means players stay less now than ever before and you have to accept that. As a manager, a big part of your business is doing far too much business that you don't want to do really. Sam Allardyce you business today football We are in a position where we always have to change more players than we really want to and that brings a lot of instability and makes your job so much harder than it should be, because players come and go almost at the drop of the hat. Sam Allardyce hat your job change People seem to expect when that happens, for players to be brought in that are so much better than the ones that have left. In the end they might be better but in the beginning they might be worse. Because they all have to gel and get to know each other and get to know you. Sam Allardyce better beginning you people I've worked at St James' and in the first game of the season there the fans will lift the players. Sam Allardyce lift will game fans Everybody thinks they can do my job better than me, they always feel you've got to throw caution to the wind and that's the way supporters are. Sam Allardyce feel job me you The problem for me is we are denying British coaches positions in all divisions now, particularly in the top division and the Championship. We need to do something about that. As a country, as the FA, as the Premier League, we need to protect the position of our own highly qualified coaches who are not even getting an interview now. Sam Allardyce own me problem country I have to remind Arsene about his team, which used to win the league, that was the dirtiest team in the league. If you cast your mind back to when they were winning the league, they had more seedings-off and bookings than anyone else. Sam Allardyce win you team mind A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management. Sam Allardyce best game win style
