Martin O'Neill

“Things can go wrong in a game. If you asked the players about what the most important thing we have is, they'd say it's spirit.”

“If Roy Keane was doing punditry work and said I'd made a mess of something, I might disagree but I would accept it from someone who has played at that level, has managed himself and knows the pressures you are under.”

“Time is pressing. No one gets any time these days, and the minute you step into a football club, it doesn't matter, you're expected to get going immediately.”

“There are managers out there who have not won a single trophy in British football.”

“There's not a person living that doesn't regret something.”

“I don't have an agent, I've never had an agent, I might be the only manager in Europe who doesn't have an agent. What I should do, I should really consider my value a wee bit more.”

“I think you can nearly lose your job in management if your tie doesn't fit your suit.”

“I couldn't even spell blog and my children are incredibly embarrassed that I couldn't open... what do you call it... a computer. But I'm going to.”

“Look at David Ginola. He is playing on such a wave of confidence he knows that even if he loses the ball four or five times on the trot, the fans will forgive him.”

“I took my two daughters to the 2003 All-Ireland between Armagh and Tyrone and they were blown away by the whole pageantry and everything about it.”

“When Sir Alex was managing, there was never a thought that he was considered too old. Primarily because he was winning, so that does help. I'm not so sure Arsene Wenger would have been considered a dinosaur either, despite a couple of supposedly barren years.”

“The Celtic experience is unforgettable it really is. To manage a football club of that size and to be successful with it. To live every moment with it all. It was just an unforgettable experience.”

“People might have said I'm a bit aloof, but I'm among the players without inconveniencing them by telling them what to do all the time.”

“My first European game was a qualifying match against a team from Luxembourg. That was my introduction.”

“I had a great time at Celtic. They are a fantastic football club, one of the greatest in the world, and if there was a united Premier League they could build an extra tier and still fill 85,000 every home game.”

“I've won the very top club prizes in my career but I think the top sportsmen will tell you that the disappointment stays with you for longer.”

“It would make me laugh, make me smile, if some manager came in and said he had a five-year plan for a football club. Fine, if you actually own the football club at the same time.”

“My wife, who hated every place she'd been to in her life, absolutely loved it in Scotland.”

“You always feel that, wherever he is, George Graham will accomplish something.”

“You cannot win major football matches at international level unless you can deal with the ball.”