I gave everything I could in trying to make Everton the best I could.

We had some glorious nights at Goodison and the fans were superb.

Bill Kenwright has taught me how to deal with people.

You can't ring up another manager and say, 'Who do you think I should pick this week?' But you take the good and bad from people as you go along.

Football is not always as glamourous as some might imagine, as the story of the first time I signed Marouane Fellaini perhaps illustrates.

I'm always very careful when I'm spending the club's money. I treat it like it's my own, and I always try to sign players for what I feel is the right price.

With Marouane's hair, I actually wondered if it might take a bit of the pace off the ball when he went up for a header. But I soon realised it was part of his personality. Part of who he is.

Your reputation doesn't stand for anything. You have to come and try to get up and show you're capable of doing the job.

I worked hard at Everton.

I hope I can fulfill all my ambitions at Everton. But you never know in this game.

Manchester United isn't about Wayne Rooney. Manchester United is about the team, the club.

Celtic's a brilliant football club, and they have an unbelievable fan base - one of the biggest in the world.

I think people know that I've got things in my mind that I want to do and things I wanted to change in time. I can't do it all overnight.

If you play for Manchester United, there is always someone out there getting ready to take your jersey. It is up to you to fight and make sure you keep it.

I agree with Arsene Wenger that finishing in the top four is the equivalent of winning a trophy - even if you don't get to parade silverware.

Going back to my playing days, I was at Cambridge United for a couple of seasons, and, of course, Newmarket is just down the road. On my days off, I would go to Newmarket quite often, park up by the gallops, and watch the horses work. It was something else.

I've always admired great football managers, and Sir Alex Ferguson had so much success.

In England, I always liked the way Terry Venables worked.

As a young Scottish footballer growing up - I always used to follow Scotland and watch the games - Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, and Joe Jordan were players I looked up to.

I was a footballer for a long, long time.

The job at Everton was so good. I worked for a great chairman, great people at the club.

I'd been at Everton for more than 11 years. We'd qualified for the Champions League, got to an FA Cup final. I'd been voted manager of the season three times.

I don't think I've necessarily got anything to prove to anyone. I've worked really hard my whole career.

It's definitely better to be a good league team than a good cup team. It shows consistency. The cup could be down to a lucky draw and might not show the value of your team like the league does.

I would be very surprised if Phil Neville didn't go into management and possibly Johnny Heitinga, too.

I turned down Premier League jobs; I didn't think they were right.

Messi gets kicked by everybody, and he gets up and carries on. Doesn't scream, doesn't fake injury.

You don't always get what you want, but you work at it.

Managers get interviewed for jobs, but I think it should be the managers who are interviewing the chairman.

It was too short: I've said many times that I would have done things differently had I known I'd only have 10 months because United are one of the few clubs in football who could have given a manager more time, like Bill Kenwright did with me at Everton.

Maybe it's old-fashioned, but I've always preferred to see players with my own eyes than on a video or going on somebody else's recommendation. If that means getting up early and taking a flight, then so be it. Our success at Everton came from having a great recruitment team who I made sure were out watching the players.

Coaches are important, but the senior players at a club are crucial.

Doesn't everyone in life deserve a chance to show what they can do?

I have always been an advocate of players and coaches going abroad if that's the right opportunity.

One of the reasons why I wanted to be part of the League Managers Association was because I felt there were an awful lot of foreign coaches coming into these shores, but we were not exporting enough British talent.

Phil Neville could be on the road to one day, maybe, becoming the England manager. I know him closely. He was a great captain, a great leader. He's had great experience.

It took time at Everton to build a team so that when we did go to United or Arsenal or Liverpool, we went with a good chance of getting a result.

I'm a great believer in the lower leagues, the pyramid system, but there is mileage in having B-teams in England with young players playing competitively.

When I took over at Everton, the challenge for us was to try to go toe-to-toe with a club having success in Europe and sometimes competing for the Premier League.

Football has always been in my blood. It's more than just an occupation, but as you get a little bit older and wiser, you want to be able to pick and choose and make sure you get the right club at the right time.

Danny Welbeck was great for us at Manchester United.

I have no regrets about taking the United job. When you get offered a job like that, you take it.

Mistakes can come at any time; the thing is to make sure you don't make too many.

At the top end I do think it's time we have goal-line technology, I'm not mad on other technology but certainly goal-line technology.

Supporters don't like the idea of people going to ground too easily. Everyone who has ever played football, everyone who's been involved, would hate that. You'd be saying, 'Get Up!'

The Merseyside derby is a terrific game full of passion, full of quality.

Clubs are much stronger than any one individual.

Manchester United was a club with great traditions, traditions where they tended to pick British managers. That tradition has now gone.

Chicharito is a really good player, and his finishing ability is as good as there is anywhere.

I think, in football, you have to go through difficulties.