David Moyes Quotes

For managers like me what is our dream? Is it what I did with Newcastle when we finished fifth? Or what Roy Hodgson did in taking Fulham to the Europa League final?

It's easier to fine tune in club football, and you have the chance to win the Champions League every year.

Juventus can afford to spend a great deal of money for new players. But Napoli can always respond by playing magnificently.

Tottenham is not a club that always wins, but we are trying to create something. It's not easy to fight against European monsters, but it is a motivation.

Every year in the Premier League, every team is improving. Every team is buying new players.

With Chelsea, the job was this: move up to the top, get into Europe. And I did that - fourth place in the Premier League and then into the Champions League, the season before Abramovich and all the money arrived.

If Celtic were to build a team strong enough to regularly compete in the Champions League, I might decide to manage them one day.

You can only go so far in the Premier League before you have to spend.

That's why it's hardest to win a Premier League instead of a Champions League - because it's over 38 games. You can't play well in every game, but it's about grinding out results.

After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived

My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.

The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

It disturbs me that Liverpool are not in the Champions League and fighting for the Premier League.

We discussed buying a defender. The view was the priority at that time given the way we were playing was that we needed support up front and that is why we bought Louis Saha.

If we can't have a great team and a winning team, then I will not be an N.B.A. owner very long.

Too many times I have had to sacrifice a trophy or the chance of winning one because the owners have said you have to stay in the Premier League at all costs.

For a big club, you can accept that the team does not win the league because it is in transition, but you cannot afford to slip out of the Champions League spot.

It's my objective to make sure Schalke are successful again. It's a huge challenge for me to help the club to the Bundesliga title again after years without winning any titles.

We as a club should be aspiring to have the best players playing for us. We've had that in the past. We're in for players if the manager wants to be.

My main aim is to finish as high up the top of the Premier League as possible. I have the ability to help teams survive.

I want Fulham to be very successful.

Bayern have always been quite successful in European competition, but the competition is not a wish concert: you always have to be fit.

Every team has to understand what their ambitions are. If their ambitions are to fight for the title or win the Champions League, you must buy expensive players. Otherwise, you continue to stay in your level. It's simple.

It took time at Everton to build a team so that when we did go to United or Arsenal or Liverpool, we went with a good chance of getting a result.

It is not so easy to turn yourself into one of the big clubs in the Premier League and also the Champions League.