“You tend to work out what makes them tick, what they respond to.”

It’s almost like he has Dr. Who’s Tardis because he always turns up on time. (on Teddy Sheringham)

I have to be involved in negotiations because players have to buy into me and what I want from them if they join my club, so all managers need to be fully involved in transfers, that’s for sure.

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

I did as well as I could at Newcastle.

Finishing fifth in the Premier League with a great team was a fine effort and we also got to the quarterfinals of the Europa League and nearly got past a Benfica side that went to the final.

It affects people around me, but it was my job to see through that.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now.

If you’ve had a bad experience with an agent, you have to move past it.

It’s probably a greater reflection of youngsters from France and elsewhere in Europe.

It (Arsenal) is an English club but not an English success.

Until that issue is addressed, no Premier League team wants to be in the Europa League. That’s the reality, even if some don’t want to admit it.

We struggled with it at Newcastle and we were not alone in that among the English clubs.

It’s important that top clubs don’t lose sight of the fact that it’s the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

If you’ve seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term ‘dementors’ – people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy.

I didn’t listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn’t let it enter my brain.

You have to have tactical plans to get a deal over the line.

Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Make it a habit to tell people thank you.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.

Richard Fliehr does not make any money.

I was so in love with the idea of making people laugh for a living that I didn’t care what I had to do to get there. Or how much money I was going to make when I did get there.