God has given him an attitude that he can deal with anything football throws at him. (on Michael Owen)

Everton are a bigger club than Liverpool. Everywhere you go on Merseyside you bump into Everton supporters.

With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.

Players who have more great games than other players are the great players.

Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.

Without picking out anyone in particular. I thought Mark Wright was tremendous.

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Working with people on a field turns me on.

I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.

Lionel Messi is the best player ever.

If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength.

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite.

I met Pele once. I am not often nervous but in this moment I was shaking. He's a wonderful person.

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

Only a human being would be able to assess whether candidates are capable, personality-wise, of sharing and disseminating that institutional knowledge to help other newer and younger workers.

Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, which help to change and develop my taste.

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.