Graeme Souness Quotes

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

During a season, you have different moments, up and down, but you have to hope in a good team to have good stability.

I'm no different than anyone. If you get more games, you're in the rhythm; that gives you confidence.

They say that when it comes to the depth chart, it can change any day and that we dictate how the depth chart goes. If one person has a great day, he might be going with the 'ones.' If a person slips up a little bit, he might be going with the 'twos' and 'threes.'

When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.

I struggle with playing low minutes and trying to keep a rhythm. I've just never been able to do it.

It's hard in England. If I didn't score for three games, there was the chance someone would take my place or I would be loaned out.

Starting you automatically gets into your rhythm faster. Coming off the bench, you're colder; it can be harder at times.

If for half a year you only get 10 minutes to play from the bench, then you have no rhythm.

You cannot have players come on and not make the impact because the game will slowly slip away from you. It is important you are ready.

My weakness is hitting it straight under pressure.

Any team can't give top performance all year round.

I want to build a team who can play home and away the same.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to do well and score more, and it will be a matter of time. Once you get back into that rhythm, you will start getting balls that drop to you in positions where it wasn't before. I do have that feeling that it is going to come soon.

I'm normally a player that plays well under the TV lights, the cameras and everything, I normally do produce quite well.

If you want to have that winning feeling, it's best to keep on winning.

My preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.

Before my last year at Arsenal, when we won the FA Cup, I was really up and down, never really consistent, and never really put my mark on the team. I understand that then there were question marks over my name.

I left Barcelona because I believed it was very difficult to have minutes in the first team, as there are very good players.

Concentration and focus - they are very important, just as important as in anything, I suppose, if you're going to succeed. I've seen a lot of good players on the training ground, but when it comes to the game, they can't keep the same levels up on a Saturday.

Being out with an injury is always a tough thing, and coming back, you're never sure where you might fit in.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I always try to perform, and not because you have players on the bench or on the pitch that can play in your position.

Having fresh players is important.

You still have to enjoy the tour games. If you go out there and just go through the motions, you can easily get into bad habits, you lose a bit of rhythm or a bit of form and then things can go pretty bad pretty quickly.