At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician (the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!)

I had a nice time over Christmas. I watched EastEnders - blimey, that makes my job look easy!

It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.

Inter have bought the finished article and there's no doubt he can keep improving.

No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets.

I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.

We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result.

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.

We’re always looking, but we never really see.

There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!

I have a big problem with Islam.

Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is.