Quotes from Alan Hansen

The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.

People say I'm bad at a lot of things. One I agree with is that I'm a bad driver.

Everybody likes Brazil and we want the Brazilians to come out.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

What I always do is just look at the players, look at the best 11 they can put on the pitch.

I think the reality is that, that money was probably badly spent.

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.

When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.

I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.

Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.

I had no plans once I finished my football career, which was a problem, so I had to go looking for work. Television was the one area that it was easier to get a job than anywhere else.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

I always wanted to be a golfer, only I realised that if I'd played golf I would have been skint.

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

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.

The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

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!

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.

Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.

Even though they won't finish in the top four this season, they will still be of the contenders next season.