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I'm not going to make a present of Santa.
I've always thought Everton was a great club.
Defending is an art, everybody has forgotten it.
Believe me, I look back on West Ham in a good way.
Hopefully Andy Carroll has only tweeted his hamstring.
I hate perception. There's far too much of it in football
You have to keep control mentally when you go a goal down.
What I expect is a little more respect from a fellow manager.
Ambition is important for any manager or coach, owner or director.
I think accepting an instruction is part of a player's responsibility.
Jay Jay Okocha. On and off the field he was the captain you looked for.
I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more...
Today was about our lack of ability to not produce the ability we've got.
It's not a very secure industry but it's one we all love and enjoy doing.
I couldn't give a s***! He just can't take it. Good old Jose, moaning again.
I have always said that managers stay in a job when they win football matches.
As a manager, you look at who is going to get the fans on the edge of the seats.
What is entertainment? Entertainment is the master of defence in Europe - Simeone.
People too often - because it's an easy, lazy tag - dwell on my style of football.
Since Newcastle I've had a fantastic time at Blackburn and then here, at West Ham.
Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.
If there are things saying wrong about Sam Allardyce, believe you me, I will be fighting them.
The more goals you concede ultimately results in the bottom three, not the more goals you score.
I've worked at St James' and in the first game of the season there the fans will lift the players.
Football is a worldwide business consortium and to satisfy that best you need to find the best players.
It is very important to me to communicate with the fans and not hide what's going on behind the scenes.
You have to try to win the ball at all costs and if someone doesn't get it quite right people get injured.
Man-management is my biggest asset, to help the players enjoy themselves and be better than they already are.
I believe first of all it's always a disappointment to lose the players at an important moment of the season.
My model is much deeper than looking after players. My model is understanding the industry, working within it.
My parents are from Scotland and my sister and brother were both born in Scotland so my heritage is from there.
The only decisions I'm making at the moment are whether I have tea, coffee, toast or cornflakes in the morning.
The bonding of the team is exceptionally important and trying to create a good team spirit and to have some fun.
In adversity you have to become stronger and make sure you don't make those mistakes again so you learn from it.
A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.
Have transfer prices in England surprised me? No. Are the prices over-inflated? Yes. But there is no surprise now.
When you hit that safe 40-point mark it's very easy for a player to think about his holidays and actually switch off.
Expectation builds the one thing you must have when you get to a new stadium when it's built, which is a winning team.
We live in a world that builds people's expectations so high, so when the downside comes there is a knee-jerk reaction.
Historically almost every team I've managed has returned from even just a five-day break with improved physical output.
My main aim is to finish as high up the top of the Premier League as possible. I have the ability to help teams survive.
There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist.
I'm hardened over many years. You toughen yourself for whatever job. You either take the good with the bad or don't bother.
It's great having the best league in the world, no doubt about that, but the downside of that is the national team will suffer.
I had four great years at West Ham. People will always refer to the difficulties at certain times, but you get those everywhere.
My time at Bolton was fantastic. I didn't want to go. It's a fantastic stadium with fantastic fans, but I want to disappoint them.
It's always a good time to play against a team when they come back from Europe, whether it's the Europa League or Champions League.
The satisfaction for me is that when you leave somewhere you look at what you are leaving and I know I left West Ham in great shape.
Just because a player drops down a division, it doesn't mean he's turned into a bad player overnight and isn't good enough for England.
My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.