A biography for Roy Hodgsonhasn’t been written yet.
“As far as I know, Fulham were never for sale during my time there. Mohamed Al Fayed never wanted to sell Fulham.”
“There aren't many English managers, I suppose, who've had the sort of career that I've had, outside the country. With the amount of money that is going around in the Premier League, not many people are tempted to move abroad.”
“When you focus the spotlight so much on one person, I think it's very, very dangerous.”
“I don't think you sign a four-year contract in the Premier League and then go to China at the age of 26.”
“I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.”
“The day it becomes impossible for teams like Palace to get results against City, the league might as well just fold up, and we'll do everything on paper.”
“The main problem with English players has always been the price.”
“All you can do when you are given a chance to play for England is to go out against whoever that opponent may be and do it very well. And if you do that, you get yourself in the forefront of the manager's mind.”
“Maybe I see things too naively at times.”
“Brazil is a fantastic football country.”
“Getting the balance right in everything is all of football and all of sport.”
“Of course, any work you do as a sporting person, a football coach or any coach, if it is good work, you've got to have something - a championship - to show for it.”
“I've worked for a long time and hope people have developed enough confidence in me that it will remain even in a period when we're not winning many games.”
“I don't think anything's cruel - if you're so sensitive these days that you see cruelty everywhere, unfortunately every time a comedian comes on television, you're going to accuse him of cruelty, because that's the kind of humour that the English people enjoy.”
“Anyone who watches football and watches Tottenham play would have to be an admirer of the way they play football and the way they go about their business.”
“I like Philip Roth, John Updike, and Richard Yates.”
“I have been in football a long time.”
“You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.”
“I don't have any intention to resign.”
“With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.”