Football Managers Quotes

I have been impressed by Carlo Ancelotti, Kevin Keegan, Arsene Wenger, Guus Hiddink, Christoph Daum and Sam Allardyce.

I've always admired great football managers, and Sir Alex Ferguson had so much success.

So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give.

I'm liking the Bundesliga. There's a lot of top, top defenders that you come across.

Two English defenders were among the finest I played against: John Terry and Rio Ferdinand.

Klopp and Guardiola are two sensational managers.

The two managers I worked under longest are Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez. I have so much respect for the two of them.

It had not crossed my mind, but maybe it has Mourinho's because that is what Chelsea did two seasons ago to Xabi Alonso.

Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, so do prime ministers. Tony Blair - is there anyone more despised now? Gordon Brown - all right, nobody voted for him but, you know... just think of any of them. Margaret Thatcher. John Major. Steve McLaren. Fabio Capello.

The sack is a sad fact of life for football managers. I have been axed three times. The chairman at Notts County was on record as saying it's the worst thing they ever did. Within a couple of years they were one game from losing league status.

The Premier League is a competition with very quick football.

Pep Guardiola had some great clashes with Klopp in German football. They know each other well.

How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.'

I watched the Juventus of Ciro Ferrara and Paolo Montero, even going back to Claudio Gentile and Gaetano Scirea.

You have to bear in mind where Louis van Gaal has worked before. His self-belief is bigger than Jose Mourinho's.

I enjoyed Wembley like all the managers before me, and I would hope that games would still be played there by the England national team.

Flamengo usually contact managers who have won a lot of trophies.

Simeone, De Boer, Van Basten - fantastic names to have worked with.