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

They were great days, great nights at St James’ Park and I remember them with affection. Maybe they are forgotten too quickly.

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.

Not a day without a line.

I enjoy thelove I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is realfor me and what is not.

When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset.

And if there is no lining to the world? If a thrush on a branch is not a sign, But just a thrush on the branch? If night and day Make no sense following each other?

I’ve never had a good line. Well, maybe ‘I must break you’.

One forges one’s style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

How do you remember all those lines? By forgetting everything else.

We take it for granted we know the whole story – We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.