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.

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.

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.

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

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.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Whatever you hold in your mind on a consistent basis is exactly what you will experience in your life.

A star does not compete with other stars around it

Redundancy is my favourite business strategy.

People aren't born strong. People grow stronger little by little, encountering difficult situations, learning not to run from them.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.