Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.

If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.

This life is a process of learning.

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

All religions have been made by men.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.