This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out.

I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.

Managing a league club is like making love to a mermaid... you should always be aiming for a top half finish

You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.

There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.

Every dog has its day - and today is woof day! Today I just want to bark.

I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!

My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.

Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.

Sepp Blatter and all of them lot Mr Platini I know he was a good player but he aint very good at what he does, I don’t think. I think he’s useless you can quote me on that.

I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.

It is a pity that dead men are still impacting the world while men who are still alive are wasting away, roaming the world without an understanding of what to do with their time.

Everyone have a game, everyone is playing in his own game and his own game he is the king the others are the other figures from the chess.

When you are feeling sad and lonely because you are single, remember that there are a lot of people stuck in bad relationships who wish they could be in your shoes.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

The thing I like about Bush is I think he hates liberals.

"No" isn't really a word I understand.

For the plain people of Ireland... If your car's got a puncture, and you know its got a puncture and its still got a puncture after two weeks, then you don't know how how to change a tyre.

Never believe a rumour until you hear it officially denied.

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.