The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.

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.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Nature never remembers, that’s why she’s beautiful.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.