Gordon Strachan Quotes

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.

If I was English I'd kill myself

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.

I want players who are always striving to improve.

People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies to each other anyway and talk rubbish.

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.

It took me 35 years of being involved at a decent level of football to become manager at a great club like Celtic.

All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.

I've had to take a lot of stick down the years but the one thing that really got to me was when someone questioned my integrity. It's the one thing that really grates with you.

I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.

Arsene Wenger was talking about comparisons with Johan Cruyff, a player who only comes around every 10 years and Thierry Henry is definitely one of those

Everybody at Barcelona loves Messi. They can't speak highly of him.

The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.

Are there Martians out there? I haven't got a clue. Is there life out there? I have no idea.

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

I've been in football a long time and people have problems through debt, drugs, drink and family.

I think what I've actually achieved as a manager does sometimes get a bit overlooked, because all people think about is the media side of things. They tend to forget I've not done so bad.

I've seen teams spend £150 million and get nowhere near the Champions League. It has taken Manchester City a billion to get there. There are no guarantees.

I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand.

He could have done one of three things. He didn't do either.

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.