GRAEME SOUNESS

I can earn a great deal more money by playing football outside Scotland than I could in Scotland, but I'd still like to be player-manager of Rangers one day.

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 you talk about those Liverpool greats, they had players who won everything. Some great team men, great goalscorers, longevity.

People always have game plans to take care of Ronaldo, but very few people succeed in keeping him quiet for 90 minutes.

The strikers are the ones that normally go for big, big money because they're the ones who decide the games, nine times out of 10.

I've never courted popularity.

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.

It's very difficult, when you're in and out of the team as a player, to get any sort of rhythm.

It's very hard to retain the Premier League.

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.

In my youth fashion was about moustaches and curly hair.

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

Football is the most entertaining game in the world to watch because it's end to end with lots of things happening.

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.

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.

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.

All top players have an edge to them.

As a manager, when you can't get your first target do you go and spend on your second, third, fourth choice?

I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.

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

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

You can talk about systems until you're blue in the face but that's secondary - if you're closing down, if you're first to the ball, it doesn't really matter what system you've got.

I accept that I sometimes overstepped the mark, but I can tell you that, off the pitch, I've never been an overly aggressive person.

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.

You don't get a manager's job at a big club unless it is in a mess.