Quotes from Graeme Souness

If you insist on playing Jorginho, who is neat and tidy but not a goal threat, you have to have goal threats on either side of him.

I first learned what a rivalry really was at White Hart Lane.

Some people can get there in three or four games, some need eight or nine, but after 11 games, if you've been playing regularly, you're match-fit.

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

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

To play as an anchor man you have to be extremely disciplined and a lot of the time you're attracted to the ball but can't go there because if you don't get there or it breaks down there is a hole.

All top players have an edge to them.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

You've always got 20 per cent of a dressing room that won't be happy with their manager because they want to play more often. There are players who will have been moaning all year about not being in the team, but when they got their chance they failed to take it.

Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan Shearer and he went to Blackburn.

I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.

If you start spending big money, what you're ultimately judged on is how your buys perform.

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.

In my youth fashion was about moustaches and curly hair.

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.

The stature of Liverpool means they want to win trophies.

I was sold by Middlesbrough to Liverpool for a record fee between two English clubs and then won European Cups at Anfield, but I couldn't have been prepared for Rangers. I was a fan as a kid and attended a lot of European nights at Ibrox. I knew the club were big. But not how big.

You don't get a manager's job at a big club unless it is in a mess.

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.