Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Neil Warnock

If I want another job, I'll get one. I haven't set a date of when to stop managing.

If you look at my past in the Premier League, without going into too many details, I don't think I had much of a chance at any of them, for different reasons.

When you're younger, you have three or four bad results and you worry about everything. You worry about injuries, because they always seem to be your best players.

No disrespect to Cardiff but they probably needed me more than I needed them, when I was appointed.

There's got to be a role for an experienced football person helping the manager; not being a threat to the manager, but helping and sorting out a lot of the hassle he has, you know? Letting him concentrate on managing the football side.

Everyone says teams should work harder when they are losing but sometimes that makes it worse.

Trust is a big word for a manager. You expect certain standards and attitudes and they know if they lower those standards, I'll jump on them.

The chairman, Mehmet Dalman, he was brilliant for me. He helped me left, right and centre, he lives aboard now but he was my shoulder.

I'm not sure I will watch a lot of professional football once I've retired.

When I do pack it in, there's plenty for me to do down in Cornwall. There are some decent local teams, like Bodmin, that I'd like to go and watch.

I don't think the authorities realise how much fans in general invest in their clubs.

I remember when I was younger I used to sing that Beatles song, 'When I'm 64', and think that's light years away for me - I was 18 when it came out. Now here I am.

In football you never know what's around the corner, but by sticking together - directors, management, players and fans - we can look to do something.

It's not an easy challenge picking up players in January, I've always found it tough. Clubs don't want to release their better players.

There is a version of me people see. I don't think I play up to it, I think it's more other people put it out there. People see the football side of me, but I'm a different character away from it.

But the art of management has not changed. The art of it is still 80 to 90 per cent man-management. It is just a matter of getting the best out of what you have got.

I love the way the Cardiff fans get behind their team, which is why I do that clenched fist action at the end of games. They get really up for the match, I can hear them and I just help offer my own support in return.

It's the last question mark against me in my career. Why couldn't I keep a team in the Premier League.

It doesn't bother me what division I am managing in.

I was fined £20,000 for TV interview where I barely said anything. The FA brought an outside barrister in to do me. A big place like the FA, they don't have their own in-house lawyer?

Neil Etheridge in goal and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, they've both come from lower league clubs and done brilliantly.

As far as I can tell most people in football do not take colour into account when judging people. I certainly don't.

On the plus side, leaving Leeds meant I have been able to spend a lot of time with the family, enjoying a very rare summer off and my first Christmas without work worries since I was a teenager. I was also able to accept an offer to work with BT Sport.

I'm glad to see goal-line technology working; we should have had it for years. I do believe we will soon see managers being allowed one, or two, challenges.

My son William and my daughter Amy are both really into their hockey now and I can enjoy watching that.

Not that I am saying I will never manage again. I want to spend more time with my family and, since we live in Cornwall, that rules out most long-term options.

When you're younger, you worry about the sack and getting abuse and things, but when you get to my age, you become less bothered about those things. It becomes more like a hobby and less like life or death.

My teams have never been supposed to be able to do the things that they do.

It's easier to sit at your desk and have a bun, but I've been really disciplined because I feel like I have to give myself a chance. You can't let yourself down on that. You have to be mentally sharp in this Premier League.

Apparently I have 12 league games to go to get 1,500 and that is really tempting to me.

Oh, I love Cornwall, it's so special. We bought the house when I was with Plymouth Argyle and we've just kept that on and kept modernising things.

Everyone wants to be loved and liked - but you can't be as a manager.

People talk about flip charts, tactic boards and other rubbish like that. But the truth is that as a manager you just need to get the best out of the players at your disposal.

I love poetry and I've kept everything I've written.

As a manager, you know you're going to take the brickbats from other clubs and their fans. But I do enjoy making my own fans happy.

Ask anyone in the game: if you want a player from France or a French player, 99 per cent of the time, you will have to deal with Willie McKay or someone like him. If you want to get the job done, then you need the Willie McKays of this world.

I find the quality of the officials in the Premier League so much better than the Championship.

I used to think you needed a passport to go south of Watford. But when I came to London the people were fantastic, so good, right down to earth, my kind of people.

The players is what I enjoy, the training ground, making players better and believing in themselves because you can make a difference.

People just do not realise what a football life can be. Since 1968 I've never had more than a few weeks out of work, when I left Sheffield United and I have not had a Christmas.

Who's been with me longest? Kevin Blackwell. I signed him as a goalkeeper at Scarborough in '86 and he's basically been with me my whole career. He's been my goalkeeper, reserve goalie, now my assistant manager.

Personally I have not encountered racism at matches, or in clubs I have worked in, for many years.

It's suggested I am big pals with Willie McKay. Am I? I don't think I am. He is an agent. You need these agents if you want to do a deal.

My son William is only nine but he's had four public schools so far, one in Cornwall, one when I was at Sheffield, one in Beckenham when I was at Palace.

That's what you want to do as a manager, finish the game, get in your bath and think about the kids going home, the young kids going home.

I like soppy films, sentimental stuff with children.

When people say things about me, I'd love to come back and give my version, but I'd rather let others spout off until the time is right.

I don't have a desire to prove people wrong, as such, because if you take a look at my Premier League record it's not too bad.

I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.

It's difficult to motivate yourself to do the workouts when you get older but I train hard.

My biggest achievement at Cardiff is bringing the whole club together in my two years here.

I wanted to retire at 55. Now at 61 with two young kids, I want to spend a bit of time with them.

I've played for managers who said one thing and did another and players find you out like that. You've got to trust them and they've got to trust you.

There's two or three managers I can't stand. I detest them and they know that.

The way that I am, most of my time as a manager has been putting fires out and I don't enjoy dealing with chairmen and owners but I know it's part of my job.

My three-course meal would be: smoked salmon with capers and a few prawns on there as well. Then it would be a dover sole grilled on the bone with a portion of green beans. And if I wasn't dieting or looking after myself, my favourite pudding would be bread and butter pudding with custard, ice cream and clotted cream all together!

Most of the clubs I have had, they have been in a precarious situation when I have taken over and I have had to change it, even going back to Scarborough and all that.

You can only go so far in the Premier League before you have to spend.

I do like reading autobiographies, if I'm honest.

I can't replicate how I feel when that whistle goes on nights like that, knowing you've won it, that people are going home smiling. You don't get that sat on my tractor in Plymouth or doing the shop in Tesco.