Quotes from Steve Bruce

The only way you can respond to anything in football is through results.

I was just too young to retire as a 52-year-old. I didn't want to be going out of football after loving it so much.

If Mauricio Pochettino can get the sack, then we all can because he did a wonderful job at Tottenham.

When you get sacked, everybody thinks: 'He's a football manager, he'll get lots of money,' but you still get sacked, which for me is a slur on you, it degrades you.

When you're taking on a Sean Dyche team, you know what's coming.

I was never blessed with any real ability but I loved the game and made up for anything I lacked with sheer hard work.

Geordies get up every day, they go to work, they put a shift in.

At Sunderland I balanced the books and managed them to this position of 10th and 13th. My record stacks up.

If our players start to see coaching as a dead end, where is the next Ferguson, the next Clough or Shankly? It's sad. How will players see a pathway, how are they going to see a future if even the England job goes abroad?

In the dressing room there is nothing better than when a good player walks through the door and the guys say 'I'm glad he's come along.'

My record is good with Birmingham and Wigan. Just study the facts.

Nobody wants to lose to bloody Rochdale.

You do get labelled in the game, and that's why I enjoyed my time managing in the Championship. I'd back myself against most people in that division.

Not many managers have been in charge for as many games as I have, that should tell you something.

I saw my mates go off to get apprenticeships on the shipyards and I went off to chase the dream of playing football and made sure I worked hard at it.

I know what it means to the supporters of Newcastle to try and win something and realistically, the cup competitions are our best route.

One of the hardest parts of management is trying to bring a club back after it's been relegated because there is a lot of doom and gloom around, especially among supporters.

You have to keep that equilibrium - not getting too carried away or beating yourself up too badly. As a manager you have to be in the middle all the time. If you take water in, people look at you and say - 'look at the state he's in today.'

From a playing or managing point of view relegation is a blot on your CV that you don't want, but you have to live with it and try to bounce back.

I look at the England job. It's not always about being the greatest coach. You've got less than a week before most matches. So do the players need actual coaching, or do they need to be set up in a team structure that works, and then pointed in the right direction? Create spirit, take away the fear.

I'm not really into tactics.

Jurgen Klopp coming into this country, you just have to applaud him for his tactics and the way Liverpool play.

I don't think you can manage 400 games in the Premier League, 550 in the Championship, play 980 times and not be a little bit organised.

I accept I am not everyone's cup of tea, but judge me over a period of time.