Quotes from Graeme Souness

It's very hard to retain the Premier League.

As a manager, when you can't get your first target do you go and spend on your second, third, fourth choice?

Whatever happens will happen, that's the rollercoaster of life. What matters is how you handle the slumps.

If you're going to be champions you've got to deal with the challenges that come along in many different ways.

It's the one that the players fear. The No 1 is the ACL - the anterior cruciate ligament - closely followed by a real tear of the hamstring, because you know that's the one injury that kids you.

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.

You have to defend properly.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

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

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.

Don't get me wrong, growing up in Edinburgh, I was all too familiar with the Hibs and Hearts rivalry. My father grew up in Leith - Hibee territory - just off of Easter Road on Albert Street.

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.

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.

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

You can't win any trophies unless you've got a top goalkeeper.

The one thing I learnt going to Italy was there's no real change in how the game should be played, but how players look after themselves.

I think if you're raising your foot high whether it's an overhead kick or not, you're risking a red card.

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

I think you find Liverpool fans are extremely passionate, as are Evertonians, but I think it goes to another level in Glasgow.

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.

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 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.

When you talk about those Liverpool greats, they had players who won everything. Some great team men, great goalscorers, longevity.

Benteke is a threat when he's fit, fully motivated and firing on all cylinders.