Gary Alexander Neville Quotes

• With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Football, Proper, Motivation

• When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sponsor, Announcement, Identity

• We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you’d told me 20 years ago I’d drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I’d have laughed. In fact, I wouldn’t have even known what a latte was.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Society

  Tags in International, Ideas

• We have to win that game. But we have to win every game, that’s the way it’s always been.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Game

• There have been times when I’ve reflected on my international career and just thought: ‘Well that was a massive waste of time.’ Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, International, Career, Player

• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in English, Football, Authority

• The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs – Real Madrid and Barcelona.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Football, Managers

• Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Players, Premier, League

• Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He’s on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Successful, British, Player

• Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you’re not really sure if you’re enjoying the ride.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Playing, England

• One year’s poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it’s a trend.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor, Form

• Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Yourself

• It will be a difficult couple of days. It’s difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Difficult Days

• It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don’t know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don’t know what they are spending their money on and they can’t make their own decisions.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Decisions, Money

  Tags in Players

• In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Expectations

  Tags in Self, Experienced, Pressure

• I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Competitive, Football

• I have been a Manchester United fan all my life and fulfilled every dream I’ve ever had. I am disappointed that my playing days are at an end. However, it comes to us all and it’s knowing when that time is and for me that time is now.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Self, Football Club

• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Mechanism, Playing

• For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Players, Championship

• As football gets more globalised, it’s probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

  Gary Alexander Neville

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Football, Globalization

Gary Alexander Neville (22)

Birth:	18th February, 1975
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Athlete

About

Gary Alexander Neville is an English former footballer who currently serves as a coach for the England national football team. Since retiring from football in the middle of the 2010–11 season, Neville has gone into punditry and is a commentator for Sky Sports. He is England's most capped right-back and was Manchester United's club captain for five years.

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