I don't know what goes on in prison. I've never been in trouble with the police in my life.

I went to the worst school you've ever seen.

I can't write - I don't even know how to punctuate.

I don't write. I couldn't even fill a team sheet in.

I've got no business acumen whatsoever.

I am a fantastic football manager, not a hard-headed businessman.

The players don't sit in there and think, 'We have to make the Champions League.' They want to play well in every game.

I have been around football all my life, and it doesn't happen. It never enters my mind. I don't think, 'Oh, what's going to happen to me at the end of the season?' Whatever happens to me, happens.

If there is anybody who feels they are not in the right frame of mind to play, then obviously, I would not play them.

I don't go to Cheltenham. Too busy. It does my head in.

I've got no hobbies - a game of golf every now and again, but that's it.

You shouldn't be paying massive wages when you've got a stadium that holds 18,000 people.

I am not a tax fiddler. I am not any kind of tax fiddler, never have been in my life.

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.

When I was a player, you only left the club if they wanted to get rid of you. That was your team - if you were at West Ham, you didn't leave until the manager wanted to replace you. You didn't think about playing for Arsenal or Chelsea.

I've enjoyed my time at every club I have worked at, I've been lucky, but I won't jump in and finish up working with a chairman I didn't like very much.

At West Ham, I was never able to buy the top-flight players. It was a case of looking around, trying to do deals. I was always taking a gamble.

Football wears you out, and when things are not going well, it's not enjoyable.

There're plenty of good people in football - mostly players and managers.

Southampton is my last job. I might have said it before, but this time, I really mean it.

When I left Portsmouth, I was happy. I'd had a great two years there, but I wanted a break. I needed a break.

I see it every week - parents shouting and screaming at kids. My dad was the same. He was always there, but he never interfered. Ron Greenwood, who was the manager of West Ham when I was a kid, wouldn't allow any parent to shout from the touchline. He thought players should be allowed to think for themselves.

I wouldn't fart in front of my wife, and she wouldn't do it in front of me.

I don't think it can be in the genes. If you see the amount of footballers, how many sons play football? Not many.