A biography for Graeme Sounesshasn’t been written yet.
“I got the Liverpool job when I was 38.”
“Some people can get there in three or four games, some need eight or nine, but after 11 games, if you've been playing regularly, you're match-fit.”
“I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.”
“You don't get a manager's job at a big club unless it is in a mess.”
“If you insist on playing Jorginho, who is neat and tidy but not a goal threat, you have to have goal threats on either side of him.”
“I don't think anybody is looking at Mario Balotelli and thinking 'I'm going to work as hard as him.'”
“Liverpool will always be the place I look back in terms of the place where I enjoyed playing, it was just unique.”
“Historically, Jose Mourinho is not a manager who chops and changes his team and he's not big on rotation.”
“Football clubs can be quite homophobic, both in the dressing room and in the stands. I want to show I'm an ally.”
“I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.”
“When you play at home in European football, you've got to come up with a happy balance where you get on the front foot and try to win it without leaving yourself vulnerable.”
“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.”
“I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.”
“If players cannot see what's going on in a game and adapt then they are no good and they will not win anything.”
“We've got to keep the cost of watching football down. If that means players getting the same money for a few years rather than a 25 per cent increase every time, that's fine.”
“You've always got 20 per cent of a dressing room that won't be happy with their manager because they want to play more often. There are players who will have been moaning all year about not being in the team, but when they got their chance they failed to take it.”
“As a manager, when you can't get your first target do you go and spend on your second, third, fourth choice?”
“Liverpool are a very hard team to beat in front of their own crowd.”
“What I miss about football is being in the dressing room. But do I miss three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon when matters are totally out of your hands? No, I don't. Do I miss placing my destiny in the hands of others? No, I don't. I loved it as a player. I liked it as a manager. But that's all come and gone.”
“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.”