Paul Gascoigne Quotes

• I don’t really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it’s safe, and the guys don’t go to the papers and tell them what I’ve done.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Laugh, Laughing, Really

• Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn’t got a contract. I’ll be there for the game and I’ll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Instruction

• But if I wasn’t playing, I would drink Saturdays, then Sunday, then Monday. Then I would try and train and it was no good, then have another drink just to pass the day away.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Play, Weekend

• But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Always

• Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I’m going to.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Hopefully

• I am going to continue and bring this club forward. I am Paul Gascoigne the footballer.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Football Club

• I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Drinking, Thinking

• I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don’t know when.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Want, Manager

• At the end of it, I’ll maybe do a coaching badge but I’m not going to get forced into things.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Force

• I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you’ve got to. But I try not say that I’m an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it’s a disease I’ve got.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Accept, Disease

• I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman’s decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Decision

  Tags in Game, Players

• I like to help create team spirit in the dressing room. I feel that I’ve got loads of love to give.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Like

• I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I’m learning to say I’ve got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Never, Learning

• I never predict anything, and I never will.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Never

• I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

  Paul Gascoigne

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  Tags in Myself, Responsibility

• I won player of the year and players’ player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Game, Player

• I’ll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Game

• I thought I did well for someone who has been out for 10 or 11 months. Then I was sub against Liverpool and tried to play for the guys and work on my fitness.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Health, Work

• I’m going to do things when they are right for me.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right

• I’ve had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.

  Paul Gascoigne

  Topics in Friendship, Love

  Tags in Help, Friends

Paul Gascoigne (28)

Birth:	27th May, 1967
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Football Player

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