Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.

- Gordon Strachan

The reality, ... is that I need to win games of football. That's where the pressure and the sleepless nights come from. There's a fantasy pressure wi…

- Gordon Strachan

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.

- Gordon Strachan

People talk about how you make team spirit - is it golf days or going out drinking together? That doesn't count. When you drink, you just tell lies t…

- Gordon Strachan

He [Sir Alex Ferguson] used to play tapes of Bill Shankly talking. I remember that and a singer he liked. I don't know who it was but it was crap. He…

- Gordon Strachan

If I was English I'd kill myself

- Gordon Strachan

If you keep asking me questions, I will continue to find excuses.

- Gordon Strachan

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

- Gordon Strachan

I want players who are always striving to improve.

- Gordon Strachan