I may be able to put a good book tape on in the car on the way home and I will have a smile on my face.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water

I enjoy making the decisions.

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

Join the club. (to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place)

Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.

Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies

The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

Three rules: I do not eat too much; I do not worry too much; and, if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.

In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise.

Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.

Everyone is not your customer.

When your perspective is preloaded with the Word of God, lies lose their power over your life.