Peter Thomas Taylor > Quotes

“If there are two lads with football ability but unequal intelligence, you can be sure that the boy with the higher IQ will progress further in the game.”
― Peter Thomas Taylor, With Clough, By Taylor

“We finished seventh from the bottom after that first season, an almost stratospheric placing for a team over-staffed with deadbeats and renegades whom we dared not leave alone for a moment; I’m not thinking of capers off the field but of their incapacity to absorb instructions on it. The poorer the footballer, the more attention he needs. Basic drills at throw-ins, corners and free kicks must be hammered into their thick heads and, even then, are often forgotten in the stress of a match.”
― Peter Thomas Taylor, With Clough, By Taylor

“I have an old-fashioned idea about constructing successful football sides; I believe in strength down the middle – a good goalkeeper, a good centre-half, a good centre-forward. They are the spine of a side.”
― Peter Thomas Taylor, With Clough, By Taylor