I don't want to portray myself as a hardman in management or anything like that.

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some ways I am black and white.

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water

I enjoy making the decisions.

Football's in my blood - and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

Join the club. (to Robbie Fowler after the striker missed a penalty against Middlesbrough that cost Man City a European place)

And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

Accept the good, however big or small, with no strings attached.

Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.

The best part of work is always working with people and getting to know them and having the sense that you're not actually working.

Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.