True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I've not lost sight of that.
There's a bit of a myth that you pre-suppose every European player is better than every English player.
People suppose that you are great if you win and rubbish if you lose. Well, actually, whatever the result I still know what I am doing.
Life's not a dress-rehearsal. So if you want to do it; do it.
If your performance levels are right, that brings results and that brings momentum naturally. We believe in the training schedule.
If I can understand them better as a person then I can understand how to make them a better player too.
I'm not one of those football people who thinks and talks nothing but football.
I was a player who got the job done, and I think I'm kind of maybe thought of like that as a manager.
I was a Liverpool fan as a kid.
I saw Metallica, I'm not a major Metallica fan, but I like music enough to get invited and went.
I love the relentless nature of a side that never gives up.
I don't want just pure roll out of the back four. I want productive mixed play... How many ways can you affect a game?
I don't think I've ever been a fashion item, I don't think I was as a player.
Football management is about managing people.
Established is a dangerous word for me. It could imply a modicum of complacency.
