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Simon Smith
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wonder if you will be able to download it on the iplayer later? (if I miss it live)
dbignall85
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Little Q&A with Roberto in GQ Magazine..
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2013-11/01/roberto-martinez-everton-interview
How do you start your day?
"I'm up at 6.15am exactly. After a shower and some breakfast, I'm ready to go."
What is your breakfast of champions?
"Fresh orange juice and chocolate spread on brown toast."
Do you exercise in the morning or at night, and what do you do?
"Normally I try to get exercise through a five-a-side game once a week with the staff at Everton after training."
What is the most important decision you've made in your professional life?
"When I decided to hang my boots up and take the manager position at Swansea City in 2007."
What is the best piece of advice you've been given?
"Never to compromise your beliefs. My dad is a football person and he always said, 'You'll have moments that you'll be pushed and put under pressure to compromise your beliefs in football, but stick to your principles.'"
Are your best decisions based on instinct or information?
"I think it's informed instinct, so it's always more of a feeling. I think it's always a cultured instinct."
What separates winners from losers?
"Having a winning mentality."
When do you work at your best?
"My brain ticks much better at night so any time after 11pm is when I'm at my sharpest."
What book/song/motto do you find most inspiring and why?
"At the moment it has to be the Z Cars tune, Everton's anthem. I already understand how special that is."
What is the secret of your success?
"Hard work and passion."
Everton vs. Tottenham: Sunday, 3 November, 1:30pm at Goodison Park.
Originally published in the November 2013 edition of British GQ.
Love the bit about Z-Cars
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2013-11/01/roberto-martinez-everton-interview
How do you start your day?
"I'm up at 6.15am exactly. After a shower and some breakfast, I'm ready to go."
What is your breakfast of champions?
"Fresh orange juice and chocolate spread on brown toast."
Do you exercise in the morning or at night, and what do you do?
"Normally I try to get exercise through a five-a-side game once a week with the staff at Everton after training."
What is the most important decision you've made in your professional life?
"When I decided to hang my boots up and take the manager position at Swansea City in 2007."
What is the best piece of advice you've been given?
"Never to compromise your beliefs. My dad is a football person and he always said, 'You'll have moments that you'll be pushed and put under pressure to compromise your beliefs in football, but stick to your principles.'"
Are your best decisions based on instinct or information?
"I think it's informed instinct, so it's always more of a feeling. I think it's always a cultured instinct."
What separates winners from losers?
"Having a winning mentality."
When do you work at your best?
"My brain ticks much better at night so any time after 11pm is when I'm at my sharpest."
What book/song/motto do you find most inspiring and why?
"At the moment it has to be the Z Cars tune, Everton's anthem. I already understand how special that is."
What is the secret of your success?
"Hard work and passion."
Everton vs. Tottenham: Sunday, 3 November, 1:30pm at Goodison Park.
Originally published in the November 2013 edition of British GQ.
Love the bit about Z-Cars
ijjysmith
Calm
He really is boss.
Love this man.
Got a mental image of Bobby waking up with his fresh orange juice and toast, swanning about humming the Z cars tune. Boss.
pablo 1878
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Bungle
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This really.
Duncan Disordely
Player Valuation: £35m
dholliday
deconstructed rep
I think he's being a bit disingenuous here. That "hard work and passion" are the keys to success has long been proven wrong (see the English national team, with their "I don't understand how we didn't win the World Cup, we work so hard and we're so passionate" lark).
Tactics and a positive belief system within the team are more the key here, which I think Roberto actually means when he says "hard work and passion". Whereas when a native says "hard work and passion" they mean running up and down the channels and shouting a lot.
Duncan Disordely
Player Valuation: £35m
I think it's more to do with personal success more than the team
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