Phil Neville Quotes

Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to do it.

I'm not a pundit. I'm not an analyst.

Before I retired, I had agreed to join the BBC to work as a pundit, with my contract beginning at the start of the 2014/15 season.

There's a little bit more of a freedom when you're doing radio play-by-play as opposed to television. I prefer the television side of it.

It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

I work when, and where I want to.

I'm very lucky to have been given a lot of freedom in my career, but it's also fun to play in other people's playgrounds!

Whenever you need something from someone else before you can move forward, it's a dependency. We believe dependencies slow people down. We want people to be more independent, because that will keep them moving forward.

All of our columnists have areas of interest and expertise that they will return to frequently, but the subject matter of any given column is up to them.

I would love to do co-hosting somewhere to some degree.

I really enjoy working as a pundit.

Just watching this woman owning the TV, there is no doubt that the reason I wanted to get into TV presenting is down to Cilla.

In the future we will all be famous for 15 minutes. It will be on a daytime magazine programme and we will each wear a tasteful shirt and slacks combination. We'll be interviewed by a soothing voice under a clock that's permanently set to 4pm. We will talk about the weather. We will record for months to get 15 minutes they can use in the edit.

I think associate director jobs are the best in the world, because you can do what you want and not have to take responsibility for it!

Whenever counterterrorism professionals see punditry and media make grand pronunciations on terrorism that defy all demonstrable evidence, an unrepeatable oath is usually muttered.

I had the freedom to choose my career. I had the opportunity to choose a career in sports. It's what I'm most passionate about. It's what I love.

I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.

We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.

Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.