Quotes

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

One reason I never became the England manager was because the FA thought I would take over and run the show. They were dead right.

Rome wasn't built in a day... but I wasn't on that particular job.

[on his disdain for women's football] I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

I can't even spell spaghetti never mind talk Italian. How could I tell an Italian to get the ball? He might grab mine.

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 Sven-Göran Eriksson] At last England have appointed a manager who speaks English better than the players.

If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there.

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.

That Seaman (David Seaman) is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.

[on Martin O'Neill] Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

I recommended 30-odd years ago that when a player was getting booked for example and in trouble, not only discipline him but discipline the manager as well. You go and fine Alex Ferguson £50,000 and knowing how tight Alex is with money, I'm telling you nobody would get booked in Manchester United's side 'cos he'd step on it straight away.