'Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me send me some when I'm alive.'

'I don't want any epitaphs and profound histroy and all that type of nonsense. I would just hope they'd say I contributed and that somebody liked me.'

'We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home to watch Match of the Day. To this day my missus complains that she's missed the last 5 minutes of every film we saw.'

'Me, Walk on water? There's lot of people out there saying instead of walking on it I should take more of it with my drinks. Hey and they're absolutely right.'

'If God had intended us to play football in the clouds he'd have put grass up there.'

'When I signed Peter Shilton, Stoke's chairman said he was brilliant but he would get me the sack. I told him straight 'He's not that fucking brilliant'.

It should be a rule that if a chairman sacks a manager he appointed in the first place, then he should bloody go as well.'

'Some stupid people questioned me spending all that money on Peter Shilton, but I'll tell you one thing - a team with only an OK goalkeeper is always looking over its shoulder.'

'Most directors are shithouses and backstabbers who would have given Julius Caesar a good going over.'

'On occasions I have been big headed. I think most people are when they are in the limelight.'

'David Beckham? I do know a couple of things about that young man. His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.'

'I'm not saying Arsenal have got a lot of French players but their dressing room smells more of garlic than liniment.'

'I call myself big 'ead to remind myself not to be one.'

'Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.'

'Peter Shilton was absolutely brilliant that season. He won us the title but I didn't dare tell him. One big head at our club was quite enough.'

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