Brazil is a fantastic football country.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 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'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 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.

You can't flirt with relegation every year.

I try very hard not to look back.

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

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

I quite liked Dostoyevsky when I was younger.

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

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

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.

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.'

When you have been lucky enough to move up the ladder, all you see, really, is the slide back down. You don't see the further steps upwards.