Harry Redknapp Quotes

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

Champions are built on a thousand invisible mornings.

It's about putting in the hours and going through the paces.

I drove right into the music with the same sort of attitude as I went into the football stuff with. Just found a routine and hard work, and it helped me progress a lot faster.

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I've been very successful at selling my things, but I've also been getting up at 4 in the morning for 40 years.

I get up at 4:30 in the morning, seven days a week, no matter where I am in the world.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day. I like going out, but you have to know when you can and when you can't.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps.

I get up at 5 A.M., and I train hard. I've got two young children, so I have to get up early. But I like it.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.

There is no secret. It is all about doing the same things time and time again. It is all about doing the best every day.

When you go to the training ground day after day, there's times when you don't want to do it, especially when you see all the boys go out to training.

I'm kind of a grinder.

I tell people all the time that football taught me about life in every single aspect.

Every day, I do training. Sometimes at midnight I train, sometimes 4:30 in the morning as well.

I always believe that hard work is something that gets you to where you need to be, and I know in football it's not a one-man game.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

I train for about 30 hours a week. That's at least four hours every day. I swim at seven most mornings. It's got to be your life. You've got to fit everything around it. If that's all you know and it's what you love to do then it's got loads of positives as well.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.