Sir John Hall was a multi-millionaire when I came back to Newcastle. With all the players I've bought, I'm trying to make him just an ordinary millio….

You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison..

English football is in a bad way because the foreign players here are so good, so dominant..

It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I ha….

I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time..

I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again..

They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that..

The 33 or 34-year-olds will be 36 or 37 by the time the next World Cup comes around, if they're not careful..

Everything I've done I've done with enthusiasm and passion..

I know what is around the corner - I just don't know where the corner is..

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!.

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably.

Sol Campbell there, using his strength. And that is his strength. His strength..

I don't think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona..

It never rains in Manchester, but it pours.

We don't get any marks for effort like in ice-skating..

At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?.

The game has gone rather scrappy as both sides realise they could win this match or lose it..

The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game..

In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg..

The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet.