Quotes by Alan Hansen

• Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.
• I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.
• When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.
• What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.
• We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!
• These guys live and breathe football; they get something out of going to the training ground every day.
• The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.
• The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.
• The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.
• The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!
• Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.
• In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
• I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
• I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.
• I don't think anyone enjoyed it. Apart from the people who watched it.
• I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club.
• He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.
• Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.
• Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.
• It's incredible considering the public perception that he was tight fisted and he was more than prudent, and lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.
• I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.