Graeme Souness

We've got to keep the cost of watching football down. If that means players getting the same money for a few years rather than a 25 per cent increase every time, that's fine.

Football clubs can be quite homophobic, both in the dressing room and in the stands. I want to show I'm an ally.

All top players have an edge to them.

I've never courted popularity.

I joined Liverpool in 1978. I was the record signing between English clubs.

I don't really socialise in the football world.

You know, there has never been a watershed moment with a coach when I've gone, 'Wow, I learned something today.'

The world's best when I was growing up was Pele and he would have been a great player now, too, but Messi surpasses him.

I get frustrated with certain aspects of the game. But there's things that delight me, it's just the uncertainty of it all.

I get a real buzz going into a stadium, a full house, the anticipation of how the game is going to pan out.

You get a sense when you're a player of where the game's going and you work your way around that.

If players cannot see what's going on in a game and adapt then they are no good and they will not win anything.

I worked out long ago that I wasn't cut out for management. My personality doesn't lend itself to the job, especially what it's become. By the time I stopped, the good times weren't compensating for the bad.

The world is changing, football should definitely too.

We need to take good care of football's image.

If you came to my house you would not think an ex-footballer lived there. I've got nothing on the walls or the shelves from my time in the game.

No one's career is full of highs. Somewhere down the line you are going to get kicked where it hurts and it's how you deal with that.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

I came from a working class family. We lived in a prefab. We had nothing, but we had everything. I was out of the house at 12 to live with my grandmother, who was on her own, and I was expected to be the man about the house. At 15, I was living in digs in London after signing for Tottenham.

Both my parents were mild, gentle people.

I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.

My career has been the best part of 50 years. If I had to go through it all again, I'd love to, warts and all. There have been so many good things that they outweigh the bad. But I do have regrets.

I was not satisfied at Rangers, not by a long way. I have hassles there, I had obstacles placed in front of me, and certain things never sat easily on my shoulders, and never will.

I accept that I sometimes overstepped the mark, but I can tell you that, off the pitch, I've never been an overly aggressive person.

I go to anything at the cinema that gets the hype. I'm so easily seduced by it.

United have always been a big scalp to take, no matter where they are in the league.

Man Utd have always been the glamour team, always been the team that attracted attention even when they were not winning things.

Continuity is what makes success, but it is all about getting over the humps on the road to that; that's what football is all about.

I'm a great believer that you cannot have enough senior pros around your dressing room.

It's very easy for people to overlook how important a good goalkeeper is in a team.

In 2017, Kante has been fantastic and is almost two players at times. He covers every blade of grass and he's not short of technique. He would get in any team because there's room for that type of player no matter what system you play or level you play at.

The Scottish people and the people of the north-east are very similar - they love their football.

Mark Viduka, Nicolas Anelka and Michael Owen are all top strikers and the facts speak for themselves.

A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.

When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out of the seat.

I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.

Apart from actually playing football, I am at my most happiest with either my dogs, or planting in the garden.

Historically, Jose Mourinho is not a manager who chops and changes his team and he's not big on rotation.

If you are making mistakes at centre-back then inevitably that results in an effort on your goal and your goalkeeper has to make a save.

I can earn a great deal more money by playing football outside Scotland than I could in Scotland, but I'd still like to be player-manager of Rangers one day.

What I miss about football is being in the dressing room. But do I miss three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon when matters are totally out of your hands? No, I don't. Do I miss placing my destiny in the hands of others? No, I don't. I loved it as a player. I liked it as a manager. But that's all come and gone.

I've won something like 27 trophies in my lifetime. There are people out there who are very good players and yet they've won nothing. I won 10 trophies in three different countries as a manager: I've got nothing to prove. I've done it.

There's managers out there now who would love to have won a single trophy. The fact is the vast majority of them haven't. So I'm quite cool about what I did as a player and as a manager. Could I have done better, or differently? Of course. But that's all water that has flowed under the bridge; it doesn't cause me any sleepless nights.

I worry for Scottish football.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

As you get older, I suppose, you get a bit more cautious in everything you do. But I've always been blessed with self-belief.

In my youth fashion was about moustaches and curly hair.

I was always - and I have no idea where it came from - a confident boy. And when I look at how I've lived my life that's how I've lived it.