Who's been the biggest influence on my career? That's easy, Me.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business, but I was in the top one

Sometimes you win football matches in unusual places - like before you have even set foot on the field

We liked a soft pitch. I used to water ours more than the groundsman. Half of the time nobody knew I was doing it because I went back at night

The River Trent is lovely. I should know because I've walked on it for 18 years

I paid for that stand and I bribed the erectors because we built it in Winter. They said they couldn't work on it because of ice, so I provided coffee and brandy and sent their wives hampers and all sorts

I fight lost causes. It's just the way I am.

There's nowt wrong with a place being run by a dictator - just so long as that dictator is me

Some people liked to think it was a flash in the pan. It lasted 20 years, some flash in the pan

Our team is so young that away trips are like school outings. Our biggest problem isn't injuries it's acne

Edward Sheringham was the slowest player on the staff. Probably because of all the nightclubs he told me he didn't visit

I'm the shop window - Taylor is the goods in the back

Trevor Francis should have advertised instant coffee because he was an instant footballer.

I'd have loved to have been Muhammad Ali - that big, that quick, that talented... that famous

Some kids I'd been at school with would say 'You're dead lucky you are being a footballer because I was always better than you.' I'd smile and remind them 'Well you're not now.'