Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

When does every fan like the manager?

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

Ambition is important for any manager or coach, owner or director.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

I have always said that managers stay in a job when they win football matches.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

If a better player comes along, I will try to persuade the club to get him in. Sometimes, you can do your business and all of a sudden something appears that you never expected to appear.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

My dad was a pretty social animal when he wasn't working.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

I have a great amount of enthusiasm, and I am a man who knows how to do this job inside out because of the experience I've gained over the years.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

I have to remind Arsene about his team, which used to win the league, that was the dirtiest team in the league. If you cast your mind back to when they were winning the league, they had more seedings-off and bookings than anyone else.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

If I got sacked because my results weren't good enough at Everton, I accept it, but getting sacked when they finish eighth, it is ridiculous. In fact, it is ludicrous.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

When will the first manager manage at a professional level having learned his trade on 'FIFA 16,' '17,' or '18?' I've watched my grandson on it, I've watched him buy players and sell them to get to the top of the league and it's teaching him how to manage. The knowledge base that they build up would be very interesting down the line.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

Busquets has been a great player for Spain and Barcelona, don't get me wrong. He's a very effective player and is the first pick for every manager because he plays such a simple game. But we laud him as a genius, whereas our own we don't, we criticise.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

Since Newcastle I've had a fantastic time at Blackburn and then here, at West Ham.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

Finishing in the top four for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man United was easier before, but now it's getting much more difficult with the emergence of teams like Manchester City.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

I believe first of all it's always a disappointment to lose the players at an important moment of the season.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

I always like working with young people, it keeps you young.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

There is a lot of pressure at first when you first take over a club that's struggling but you want to go and do your best for yourself, your family and the club that employ you.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

I want to be able to savour life while I'm still relatively young and when I'm still relatively healthy enough to do all the things I want to do, like travel, spend more time with my family and grandchildren without the huge pressure that comes with being a football manager.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

There's always that time in football where people say that when you have the dip, it's how well do you overcome it. And when you do overcome it, you then end up being a much better player and generally your career lasts a lot longer after getting through that period.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

You have to keep control mentally when you go a goal down.

Sam Allardyce
Sam Allardyce

The more goals you concede ultimately results in the bottom three, not the more goals you score.