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.

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

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.

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.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

That was awesome. I wasn't expecting it and when I got the call I got nervous for a second. But I was just really excited.

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.

What is real is beyond all reach.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

There is no free will if to exercise it in certain ways produces punishment. That makes a mockery of free will and renders it counterfeit.

There are many special interests skilful at manipulating circumstances and communications in such a way as to benefit their own ends and not necessarily the public good.

If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.