Tony Adams

“Glenn Hoddle is probably one of the best technical coaches in the country. Top, top guy. I think he got the England job too early - he was 38 when he was managing England.”

“I kept a notebook on the opposition guys because there was only something like five live games on TV per year.”

“Sportspeople are competitive and want to be the best. That doesn't make us special and different - but we are! If we mess up, there's going to be somebody better come along and take our job.”

“My doctor said: 'A midlife crisis is completely normal.' But I felt, because I was supersober, I can't have these problems. Of course I can.”

“I think Arsene Wenger is a magnificent physiologist and psychologist. Those are the areas where he excels. He's a lovely man and he has the respect of all the players he's ever worked with.”

“I think the Emirates is the best stadium in the country.”

“That is the job of the coach to get the best out of his squad of players - not to avoid it and say: 'No good, don't want you.'”

“I was married to the club for 23 years so Arsenal are like an ex-wife.”

“My skin is quite thick now.”

“Great keepers and centre-backs were what the English were brought up on.”

“I think business is more dysfunctional than sport. I thought the sports world was. It's quite interesting.”

“Practice makes perfect, that is my way.”

“I just think he's been the most successful Arsenal manager of all time. I don't want that spoiled and I see signs that he's incredibly addicted to football. I don't see that he's got a life outside of it. I just don't want him to go on too long and for it to crumble and end in tears, and all of us don't like Arsene. It would be so sad.”

“Gabala was a remote, little village in the Caucasus, and that experience has helped me a great deal.”

“I used to play with Steve Bould. We used to play zonal defence. Steve was a zonal defender and he knew how that system worked. Playing with Martin Keown was different. He was a man-to-man marker and when I used to play with Martin, I used to play differently alongside him.”

“Football coaching and the management profession is being ripped apart by owners and chief executives.”

“When I left Portsmouth, I vowed to only work for people I liked.”

“I'm not sure I'm cut out to be a manager. I like to be loved too much.”

“I love Arsenal and I will always be proud to walk through the door as an Arsenal man.”

“I'd love it if I had a nutty aunt or a nutty grandad.”