A biography for Martin O'Neillhasn’t been written yet.
“It's very important for young players to grow up comfortable with the ball and, if I was an underage coach, I would be absolutely demanding that.”
“It's interesting that people take that fire out of their image of me when it's been part of my make-up through a whole managerial career. They ask me if I have regained my enthusiasm for the task after my experience at Sunderland. The answer is I never lost my enthusiasm.”
“I wanted to be in the Champions League. I'd had the experience of that there at Celtic. There's nothing like it and there's nothing like that music being played.”
“If Brian Clough, who had the ego the size of 15 houses, had the humility to go for an interview for the England job then the rest of us mortals should be able to subject ourselves to that.”
“I have two daughters and one of them is now a bigger Celtic fan now than when I was manager, which is a major disappointment to me!”
“I don't see that you have to make a radical change because you lose a game.”
“There were 75,000 Celtic fans who descended on Seville. The stadium could not take them but they just wanted to make the journey. If anybody had ever doubted the scale of support for that football club they only had to be in Seville for that evening. It was unbelievable.”
“Playing for your country is still a big, big thing and I just think it's psychologically and physically easier in the bigger games if you're just coming off playing a Champions League game or a top-of-the-table clash in the Premier League or the Spanish league or the Italian league.”
“My mother was an O'Kane from Swatragh in County Derry. My father had a Donegal background. I came into the world when they had a number of children: I was about halfway in the list and was born in 1952.”
“I have to tell you I can count on the fingers of one hand when I got verbally abused on the streets of Glasgow.”
“Sometimes you get a couple of results in matches against sides who are not in the top 80 - teams like Andorra, Lithuania. You can start to get a false impression of where you are.”
“I loved living in Glasgow. I would have stayed there until results went badly and I got bombed out. I would not have left under my own volition.”
“I played in Croke Park in a Hogan final for St Malachy's against Colaiste Chriost Ri and with the Derry minors in two consecutive years.”
“Andy Robertson is playing for Liverpool, John McGinn is playing for Aston Villa and playing super. There are some really decent players.”
“Sometimes great, great players on the pitch are not the best off the pitch. I think talent is very important, I think attitude is essential and if you have got a combination of these things, then you are in business.”
“As a player, it took me a long time to get over defeats, and as a manager I get moody and irritable. My wife and two daughters say that I am difficult. I don't see that, but maybe I've never seen my faults.”