A lot of young coaches who respect the fact I have been doing it a long time, that is often their question: 'Does it get any easier? Can you relax more during the games? Can you take it all a little bit more philosophically and put it more in perspective?' The tragedy is that I have to tell them, 'No. If anything, it gets worse.'

Often, in a tournament, the players that get injured or suffer a lack of form are the guys at the cutting edge, the guys who make the difference or score the goals.

I am both proud and excited at the prospect of working as the Liverpool manager.

A lot of the players who've done so well aren't necessarily the big names: James Tomkins, Luka Milivojevic to name two.

I quite liked Dostoyevsky when I was younger.

Systems win you nothing, and football players win you games.

I have worked long and hard to reach the level I have reached.

Most teams - whether they like it or not against Manchester City - you're going to find yourself quite often penned in your own half.

I try very hard not to look back.

You can't flirt with relegation every year.

I suffer during games. We follow the action, kicking every ball, wondering if our centre-backs can stop the cross... In some ways, you enjoy it, but your heart is always thumping.

I've worked for a long time and hope people have developed enough confidence in me that it will remain even in a period when we're not winning many games.

I don't sit around wondering, 'Why am I here? Who made the stars?' I prefer to look at the stars and benefit from them rather than concern myself with how they got there.

I was so fully involved in football and building a career that I didn't spend nearly enough time with my son when he was growing up.

I don't know whether you ever get over things that cause you pain.

I don't think anything's cruel - if you're so sensitive these days that you see cruelty everywhere, unfortunately every time a comedian comes on television, you're going to accuse him of cruelty, because that's the kind of humour that the English people enjoy.

Really and truly, I don't like talking about refereeing decisions.

Of course, any work you do as a sporting person, a football coach or any coach, if it is good work, you've got to have something - a championship - to show for it.

What you've got to do in any coaching job, whether it is moving to Sweden as a young man - where being English gave you a slight advantage - or something else, you've got to win the players' respect.

I have always promised myself and my wife that when I don't enjoy it anymore, or I can't handle the stress and the pressure that comes with having such a high-profile and top job - or my energy levels starts to fail me, or my enthusiasm starts to be dented - I won't prolong my career longer than I feel I should.

I've got to that stage in my life where, difficult decisions I don't have to make, I push them into the future until such time I have to make them.

I don't own photograph albums - the pictures that are important to me are etched in my mind.

Brazil is a fantastic football country.

I'm a football manager, a football coach; I can't be expected to pontificate on everything.

I have been in football a long time.

The important thing is to take each game as it comes.

For goal-scorers and centre-forwards, confidence does play a big part.

The last thing you want as a striker is the opposing team putting all 10 players behind the ball.

It does get hot in England from time to time.

Talk is talk; action on the field is action on the field.

People are entitled to say what they feel sometimes.

All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don't go their way late in life as they did early in life.

I don't like talking about not getting what you deserve, because that has no part to play in football. You get what you get.

I don't have any intention to resign.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

All managers have someone they lean on and take advice from.

As far as I know, Fulham were never for sale during my time there. Mohamed Al Fayed never wanted to sell Fulham.

The one thing we have to remember about Fernando Torres is that he's a human being who has come in for an enormous amount of criticism, not least during the World Cup from people in Spain and around the world.

Maybe I see things too naively at times.

You are never quite sure how it will go, and even after a thousand games or so, that tense feeling is still there.

I don't think any job is impossible.

With a national team, you've just got to be even more focused on what's most important because the time you've got with the players is limited.

All you can do when you are given a chance to play for England is to go out against whoever that opponent may be and do it very well. And if you do that, you get yourself in the forefront of the manager's mind.

You're as old as you feel.

Achievements are often more interesting to you when you look back on them.

Luckily, my age doesn't ever come into my thoughts.

When you focus the spotlight so much on one person, I think it's very, very dangerous.