"I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one."
"If God had wanted us to play football in the clouds, he'd have put grass up there."
"Rome wasn't built in a day. But I wasn't on that particular job."
"We talk about it for minutes and then we decide I was right" – on dealing with a player who disagrees with him.
"I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done" – on not getting the England manager's job.
"You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday" – on too much football being shown on television.
"If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well" – on too many managers getting the boot.
"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" – explaining his nickname, Old Big 'Ead.
