We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.
If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.
Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.
Come and see my coaching certificates - they're called the European Cup and league championships.
If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well.
If God had wanted us to play football in the sky, He'd have put grass up there.
If a player is not interfering with play then he shouldn't be on the pitch.
Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.
Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
There are more hooligans in the House of Commons than at a football match.
I gave my players a version of the same message at ten-to-three every Saturday: 'I would shoot my granny right now for three points this afternoon.' They knew how important it was to give everything in the cause of victory. Every time. That's why my granny enjoyed more lives than my cat.
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
They love me for what I'm not They hate me for what I am.
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
It only takes a second to score a goal.
Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.
I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
For all his horses, knighthoods and championships, he hasn't got two of what I've got. And I don't mean balls!
Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right.
The ugliest player I ever signed was Kenny Burns.
On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.
When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
