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Football clubs can be quite homophobic, both in the dressing room and in the stands. I want to show I'm an ally.
You know, there has never been a watershed moment with a coach when I've gone, 'Wow, I learned something today.'
Liverpool will always be the place I look back in terms of the place where I enjoyed playing, it was just unique.
Football is the most entertaining game in the world to watch because it's end to end with lots of things happening.
When you go into the really big games you look at your team and think 'where are we weak, where are we vulnerable.'
If you win the Premier League it means you have managed the difficult moments of the season better than anyone else.
I've played at Anfield and you can look at The Kop and there are blue pockets all over. It's another level in Glasgow.
People always have game plans to take care of Ronaldo, but very few people succeed in keeping him quiet for 90 minutes.
The world's best when I was growing up was Pele and he would have been a great player now, too, but Messi surpasses him.
When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.
When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out of the seat.
I get frustrated with certain aspects of the game. But there's things that delight me, it's just the uncertainty of it all.
As you get older, I suppose, you get a bit more cautious in everything you do. But I've always been blessed with self-belief.
A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.
I think you find Liverpool fans are extremely passionate, as are Evertonians, but I think it goes to another level in Glasgow.
The thing that impressed everyone when he same on the scene as a 17 year old was he already spoke like a man. (on Michael Owen)
The strikers are the ones that normally go for big, big money because they're the ones who decide the games, nine times out of 10.
When you talk about those Liverpool greats, they had players who won everything. Some great team men, great goalscorers, longevity.
It's the price on the ticket and emphasizes the pressure every manager is under weather you are at the top or bottom of the league.
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.
Continuity is what makes success, but it is all about getting over the humps on the road to that; that's what football is all about.
I accept that I sometimes overstepped the mark, but I can tell you that, off the pitch, I've never been an overly aggressive person.
No one's career is full of highs. Somewhere down the line you are going to get kicked where it hurts and it's how you deal with that.
If you are making mistakes at centre-back then inevitably that results in an effort on your goal and your goalkeeper has to make a save.
The one thing I learnt going to Italy was there's no real change in how the game should be played, but how players look after themselves.
I was always - and I have no idea where it came from - a confident boy. And when I look at how I've lived my life that's how I've lived it.
Kante senses dangers and knows where the ball is going to be. He has that in his DNA. Paul Pogba has more in his DNA to be up there, create.
If you came to my house you would not think an ex-footballer lived there. I've got nothing on the walls or the shelves from my time in the game.
I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.
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.
With a body like he has, I want him to be a bully. But he is too nice - he is perfect son-in-law material, but I don't want a team of son-in-laws.
When you're a player, you only really have to look after yourself. And then you go into management, and you've got 30 players' welfare to keep an eye on.
Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.
I remember being in intensive care, looking at the clock and thinking 'don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep'. I can laugh about it now but I was petrified.
I can earn a great deal more money by playing football outside Scotland than I could in Scotland, but I'd still like to be player-manager of Rangers one day.
There will be internal discipline, but I can envisage both of them playing for Newcastle again. They're top-class players and they don't come along very often.
I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.
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.
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 can't look into a crystal ball but what you can say is if money is put on the table and you get half your signings right then you are going to be better next time around.
I was not satisfied at Rangers, not by a long way. I have hassles there, I had obstacles placed in front of me, and certain things never sat easily on my shoulders, and never will.
You can talk about systems until you're blue in the face but that's secondary - if you're closing down, if you're first to the ball, it doesn't really matter what system you've got.
I think I speak for all the pundits when I say we are just giving an opinion. I am asked to give an opinion based on my experiences in football and based on what I see out on the pitch.
Don't get me wrong, growing up in Edinburgh, I was all too familiar with the Hibs and Hearts rivalry. My father grew up in Leith - Hibee territory - just off of Easter Road on Albert Street.
I'm not sure about Richarlison. I like him, I liked him when he was at Watford and he started well at Everton but would his preferred position be out on the left and cutting in? I'm not sure.
I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.
It's the one that the players fear. The No 1 is the ACL - the anterior cruciate ligament - closely followed by a real tear of the hamstring, because you know that's the one injury that kids you.
To play as an anchor man you have to be extremely disciplined and a lot of the time you're attracted to the ball but can't go there because if you don't get there or it breaks down there is a hole.
My career has been the best part of 50 years. If I had to go through it all again, I'd love to, warts and all. There have been so many good things that they outweigh the bad. But I do have regrets.
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.