Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Graeme Souness - Page 2

You get a sense when you're a player of where the game's going and you work your way around that.

I get frustrated with certain aspects of the game. But there's things that delight me, it's just the uncertainty of it all.

There's managers out there now who would love to have won a single trophy. The fact is the vast majority of them haven't. So I'm quite cool about what I did as a player and as a manager. Could I have done better, or differently? Of course. But that's all water that has flowed under the bridge; it doesn't cause me any sleepless nights.

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.

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.

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.

Man Utd have always been the glamour team, always been the team that attracted attention even when they were not winning things.

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 joined Liverpool in 1978. I was the record signing between English clubs.

I've never courted popularity.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

You know, there has never been a watershed moment with a coach when I've gone, 'Wow, I learned something today.'

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.

I don't really socialise in the football world.

It's very easy for people to overlook how important a good goalkeeper is in a team.

I get a real buzz going into a stadium, a full house, the anticipation of how the game is going to pan out.

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've won something like 27 trophies in my lifetime. There are people out there who are very good players and yet they've won nothing. I won 10 trophies in three different countries as a manager: I've got nothing to prove. I've done it.

We need to take good care of football's image.

The world is changing, football should definitely too.

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.

If players cannot see what's going on in a game and adapt then they are no good and they will not win anything.

I go to anything at the cinema that gets the hype. I'm so easily seduced by it.

Football clubs can be quite homophobic, both in the dressing room and in the stands. I want to show I'm an ally.

I'm a great believer that you cannot have enough senior pros around your dressing room.

In my youth fashion was about moustaches and curly hair.

You can't win any trophies unless you've got a top goalkeeper.

I worry for Scottish football.

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.

The Scottish people and the people of the north-east are very similar - they love their football.

What I miss about football is being in the dressing room. But do I miss three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon when matters are totally out of your hands? No, I don't. Do I miss placing my destiny in the hands of others? No, I don't. I loved it as a player. I liked it as a manager. But that's all come and gone.

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.

All top players have an edge to them.

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.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.

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.

In 2017, Kante has been fantastic and is almost two players at times. He covers every blade of grass and he's not short of technique. He would get in any team because there's room for that type of player no matter what system you play or level you play at.

Mark Viduka, Nicolas Anelka and Michael Owen are all top strikers and the facts speak for themselves.

Historically, Jose Mourinho is not a manager who chops and changes his team and he's not big on rotation.

God has given him an attitude that he can deal with anything football throws at him. (on Michael Owen)

Lionel Messi is the best player ever.

Scottish football is full of hammer throwers.

Working with people on a field turns me on.

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)

Sometimes you have to play in a position that you may not feel is your best.

The best signing I ever made at Rangers was Walter Smith.

Players who have more great games than other players are the great players.

If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

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.

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.

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.

Everton are a bigger club than Liverpool. Everywhere you go on Merseyside you bump into Everton supporters.

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.

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.

I won't be fining players for getting sent off.

Without picking out anyone in particular. I thought Mark Wright was tremendous.