A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.
A quality player is a quality player.
Ambition is important for any manager or coach, owner or director.
Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.
As a manager, you look at who is going to get the fans on the edge of the seats.
As the game changes you have to change with it.
Believe me, I look back on West Ham in a good way.
Defending is an art, everybody has forgotten it.
Expectation builds the one thing you must have when you get to a new stadium when it's built, which is a winning team.
Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.
Have transfer prices in England surprised me? No. Are the prices over-inflated? Yes. But there is no surprise now.
Historically almost every team I've managed has returned from even just a five-day break with improved physical output.
I always like working with young people, it keeps you young.
I believe first of all it's always a disappointment to lose the players at an important moment of the season.
I had four great years at West Ham. People will always refer to the difficulties at certain times, but you get those everywhere.
I'm hardened over many years. You toughen yourself for whatever job. You either take the good with the bad or don't bother.
Just because a player drops down a division, it doesn't mean he's turned into a bad player overnight and isn't good enough for England.
It's great having the best league in the world, no doubt about that, but the downside of that is the national team will suffer.
I have always said that managers stay in a job when they win football matches.
Jay Jay Okocha. On and off the field he was the captain you looked for.
What is entertainment? Entertainment is the master of defence in Europe - Simeone.
It is very important to me to communicate with the fans and not hide what's going on behind the scenes.
My confidence is in myself and how I run a football club and I've been doing that for many, many years now.
My main aim is to finish as high up the top of the Premier League as possible. I have the ability to help teams survive.
We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.
Teams with limited budgets will always find times tough and results won't always go your way.
You cannot just force 'the only way to play is this way' in this country.
My parents are from Scotland and my sister and brother were both born in Scotland so my heritage is from there.
When you hit that safe 40-point mark it's very easy for a player to think about his holidays and actually switch off.
