On League Football
•"You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw... "
•"That decision, for me, was almost certainly definitely wrong."
•"I'd love to be a mole on the wall in the Liverpool dressing room at half-time."
•"Football's always easier when you've got the ball."
•"He'll also be very dangerous from set-pieces. That means he'll be a threat from free-kicks and corners in the final third of the field."
•"Not many teams will come to Arsenal and get anything, home or away."
•"Maine Road was a great football stadium but as time moved on it stayed where it is...."
•"We deserved to win this game after hammering them 0-0 in the first half."
•"We have spent three matches chasing a football."
•"It's no longer an 11 man game."On International Football
•"They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that."
•"You're not just getting international football, you're getting world football."
•"He can't speak Turkey, but you can tell he's delighted."
•"There'll be no siestas in Madrid tonight."
•"Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose."
•"I came to Nantes two years ago and it's much the same today, except that it's totally different."
•"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries..."
•"Argentina won't be at Euro 2000 because they're from South America."
•"England have the best fans in the world and Scotland's fans are second-to-none."
•"I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again."
On Team Selection
•"The substitute is about to come on - he's a player who was left out of the starting line-up today."
On Football Players
•"You get bunches of players like you do bananas, though that is a bad comparison."
•"They compare Steve McManaman to Steve Heighway and he's nothing like him, but I can see why - it's because he's a bit different."
•"Gary always weighed up his options, especially when he had no choice."
•"Young Gareth Barry - he's young."
•"Luis Figo is totally different to David Beckham, and vice versa."
•"Kanu, a guy with a heart as big as he is."
•"I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection."
•"There's a slight doubt about only one player, and that's Tony Adams, who definitely won't be playing tomorrow."
•"Danny Tiatto is not going to make a mistake on purpose."
•"Nicolas Anelka left Arsenal for £23million and they built a training ground on him."
•"As far as I'm concerned, Danny Tiatto doesn't exist."
On Losing
•"I'm not disappointed - just disappointed."
•"That would have been a goal if it wasn't saved."
•"The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game."
On Anatomy
•"A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off."
•"He's got a heart as big as his size, which isn't big, but his heart's bigger than that'
•"Despite his white boots, he has real pace."
•"...using his strength. And that is his strength, his strength."
•"In some ways, cramp is worse than having a broken leg”
On Tennis (or Sailing)
•"The tide is very much in our court now."
On Mathematics
•"We are three games without defeat is another way of looking at it. But if we are honest we have taken two points from nine."
•"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."
•"The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23."
•"You need 88 points for the title and we've got 61 at present with 16 games to go, but if you set targets you limit yourself."
On Life
•"It could be far worse for me if it was easy for me."
•"They don't come every three days, like they come after this one."
•"We managed to wrong a few rights."
•"Well, if that's true then it would be a big surprise, but then nothing surprises me in football these days."
On Immortality (and Newcastle?)
•"I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really."
•"You don't get two chances at this level, or at any other level for that matter."
•"But the onus is on us to perform and we must control the bandwagon."
•"It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney."
•"I know what is around the corner - I just don't know where the corner is."
•"For some it's the ultimate job, for the others it's the last job."
