I joined Liverpool in 1978. I was the record signing between English clubs.

I don't really socialise in the football world.

You know, there has never been a watershed moment with a coach when I've gone, 'Wow, I learned something today.'

The world's best when I was growing up was Pele and he would have been a great player now, too, but Messi surpasses him.

I get frustrated with certain aspects of the game. But there's things that delight me, it's just the uncertainty of it all.

I get a real buzz going into a stadium, a full house, the anticipation of how the game is going to pan out.

You get a sense when you're a player of where the game's going and you work your way around that.

If players cannot see what's going on in a game and adapt then they are no good and they will not win anything.

I worked out long ago that I wasn't cut out for management. My personality doesn't lend itself to the job, especially what it's become. By the time I stopped, the good times weren't compensating for the bad.

We need to take good care of football's image.

If you came to my house you would not think an ex-footballer lived there. I've got nothing on the walls or the shelves from my time in the game.

No one's career is full of highs. Somewhere down the line you are going to get kicked where it hurts and it's how you deal with that.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

I came from a working class family. We lived in a prefab. We had nothing, but we had everything. I was out of the house at 12 to live with my grandmother, who was on her own, and I was expected to be the man about the house. At 15, I was living in digs in London after signing for Tottenham.

Both my parents were mild, gentle people.

I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.

My career has been the best part of 50 years. If I had to go through it all again, I'd love to, warts and all. There have been so many good things that they outweigh the bad. But I do have regrets.

Apart from actually playing football, I am at my most happiest with either my dogs, or planting in the garden.

I was sold by Middlesbrough to Liverpool for a record fee between two English clubs and then won European Cups at Anfield, but I couldn't have been prepared for Rangers. I was a fan as a kid and attended a lot of European nights at Ibrox. I knew the club were big. But not how big.

You don't get a manager's job at a big club unless it is in a mess.

I've played at Anfield and you can look at The Kop and there are blue pockets all over. It's another level in Glasgow.

I think you find Liverpool fans are extremely passionate, as are Evertonians, but I think it goes to another level in Glasgow.

You can't look into a crystal ball but what you can say is if money is put on the table and you get half your signings right then you are going to be better next time around.