The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.

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.

No man has become world's richest man because he wasted his time in the pub in the cinemas watching movies and sports.

Someone was going to die

Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

Mike's eyes narrowed shrewdly. "Don't kid yourself, Bella. The guy's head over heels for you." "I know," I sighed. "Life is complicated." "And girls are cruel," Mike said under his breath.

You know me, but you don't know me. I give you what I want to give you. I relate to villains like that - but I'm not out to destroy the world.