A biography for Harry Redknapphasn’t been written yet.
“Despite all that has happened in his career since, one of the biggest regrets of my life in management is not taking Luis Suarez to Tottenham when we had the chance.”
“Dave Mackay was one of the best I've ever seen. Jimmy Greaves was the greatest goal scorer, and George Best was just the best. The greatest.”
“I am a worrier.”
“All my mates are West Ham supporters; I went there at 15.”
“I very much doubt that it could happen again that any manager would do 20 years with a top Premiership club.”
“For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.”
“I don't go to Cheltenham. Too busy. It does my head in.”
“For me, sitting there, watching them pass the ball, watching them train - you want to be around good players.”
“I do get text messages from people with sick jokes on when something terrible has happened. I don't read them; they make me ill. But it does happen, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who gets them.”
“I've got no hobbies - a game of golf every now and again, but that's it.”
“I've got no business acumen whatsoever.”
“No one is more of a fan of the game than me: my son is a player.”
“To me, there's no point in having confrontation for the sake of it.”
“There is some right old rubbish talked about Gareth Bale's time with me at Tottenham. Was I ever going to sell Bale? No. Was I going to loan him? No.”
“When I was a player, you only left the club if they wanted to get rid of you. That was your team - if you were at West Ham, you didn't leave until the manager wanted to replace you. You didn't think about playing for Arsenal or Chelsea.”
“I feed foxes. I'm not supposed to, but I love it.”
“Southampton is my last job. I might have said it before, but this time, I really mean it.”
“The players don't sit in there and think, 'We have to make the Champions League.' They want to play well in every game.”
“You can look at stats as much as you want - and we do - but you can have too much of it. You can spend too much time looking at computers rather than looking at the real thing which is out there on the pitch. I still think that being a good judge of players is the most important thing.”
“Am I scared of anything? Yeah, everything.”