Quotes from Graeme Souness

Both my parents were mild, gentle people.

When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out of the seat.

I get frustrated with certain aspects of the game. But there's things that delight me, it's just the uncertainty of it all.

I get a real buzz going into a stadium, a full house, the anticipation of how the game is going to pan out.

Football clubs can be quite homophobic, both in the dressing room and in the stands. I want to show I'm an ally.

You never forget when you beat - or when you lose - to your city rival.

Anfield is a unique place to play on European nights.

I was always - and I have no idea where it came from - a confident boy. And when I look at how I've lived my life that's how I've lived it.

The strikers are the ones that normally go for big, big money because they're the ones who decide the games, nine times out of 10.

There's managers out there now who would love to have won a single trophy. The fact is the vast majority of them haven't. So I'm quite cool about what I did as a player and as a manager. Could I have done better, or differently? Of course. But that's all water that has flowed under the bridge; it doesn't cause me any sleepless nights.

If players cannot see what's going on in a game and adapt then they are no good and they will not win anything.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

It's very easy for people to overlook how important a good goalkeeper is in a team.

Football is the most entertaining game in the world to watch because it's end to end with lots of things happening.

You can Google how many goals a player has scored in the last few seasons, or against this particular side, but our job is to point the viewers to something that is happening in the game that they may not have seen or thought of.

I got the Liverpool job when I was 38.

Liverpool will always be the place I look back in terms of the place where I enjoyed playing, it was just unique.

I don't think anybody is looking at Mario Balotelli and thinking 'I'm going to work as hard as him.'

Mark Viduka, Nicolas Anelka and Michael Owen are all top strikers and the facts speak for themselves.