You have to defend properly.

I've never courted popularity.

I worry for Scottish football.

All top players have an edge to them.

Lionel Messi is the best player ever.

I got the Liverpool job when I was 38.

Both my parents were mild, gentle people.

I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.

Working with people on a field turns me on.

It's very hard to retain the Premier League.

Scottish football is full of hammer throwers.

I won't be fining players for getting sent off.

Liverpool will always be a very special place to me.

Anfield is a unique place to play on European nights.

In my youth fashion was about moustaches and curly hair.

The stature of Liverpool means they want to win trophies.

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

I first learned what a rivalry really was at White Hart Lane.

You can't win any trophies unless you've got a top goalkeeper.

I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.

You don't get a manager's job at a big club unless it is in a mess.

Liverpool are a very hard team to beat in front of their own crowd.

You never forget when you beat - or when you lose - to your city rival.

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

I joined Liverpool in 1978. I was the record signing between English clubs.

Sometimes you have to play in a position that you may not feel is your best.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

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

Benteke is a threat when he's fit, fully motivated and firing on all cylinders.

I go to anything at the cinema that gets the hype. I'm so easily seduced by it.

If you're scoring two goals at Stamford Bridge, it tells you that you are a player.

It's very easy for people to overlook how important a good goalkeeper is in a team.

I'm a great believer that you cannot have enough senior pros around your dressing room.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

If you start spending big money, what you're ultimately judged on is how your buys perform.

It's very difficult, when you're in and out of the team as a player, to get any sort of rhythm.

The Scottish people and the people of the north-east are very similar - they love their football.

I don't think anybody is looking at Mario Balotelli and thinking 'I'm going to work as hard as him.'

Mark Viduka, Nicolas Anelka and Michael Owen are all top strikers and the facts speak for themselves.

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

I think if you're raising your foot high whether it's an overhead kick or not, you're risking a red card.

Historically, Jose Mourinho is not a manager who chops and changes his team and he's not big on rotation.

Whatever happens will happen, that's the rollercoaster of life. What matters is how you handle the slumps.

I get a real buzz going into a stadium, a full house, the anticipation of how the game is going to pan out.

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

As a manager, when you can't get your first target do you go and spend on your second, third, fourth choice?

Apart from actually playing football, I am at my most happiest with either my dogs, or planting in the garden.

If you're going to be champions you've got to deal with the challenges that come along in many different ways.

If players cannot see what's going on in a game and adapt then they are no good and they will not win anything.

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

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