Quotes from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

When your kids disappoint you, you tell them off; you don't give them some chocolate, do you? You treat players similar to how you treat your kids, really.

When you get disappointments, you bounce back.

I realised when I was a striker that when I ended up wide on the left or right, it can be so much easier to get space and face defenders up.

When my career is over, I want to say to myself that I've done whatever I could to be the best footballer I could be.

Everyone thinks I'm looking for attacking football all the time. But the foundation is how you defend - keep a clean sheet, and you have a decent chance to win a game of football.

I had a fantastic time at United. I have been back to watch games. It was over 14 years of my life. It is a third of my life I spent at Old Trafford. That's a lot of time, and it feels like home.

It's not my job to rate myself and judge myself. That's up to someone else.

It's not my job to rate managers. My focus is on me and my team.

It's not about tippy-tappy, namby-pamby football. It's a battle, and we have to be ready for it.

I am a realistic person.

If you are a regular at Manchester United, I think you should grasp the opportunity to stay here and become part of the history.

The only way I know to get out of disappointment is to work hard, keep doing the right things, and don't make any rash decisions.

Playing games is the best time of your life, and the more games you get, the better it is.

When you win the title, you have a great few days, and then it's gone; you're already looking forward to the next season.

I was a boring man but a reflective man.

My dad used to be a Greco-Roman wrestler, and he was Norwegian champion six years on the bounce from 1966 to 1971. But I never saw him wrestle. I've only read the clippings.

Molde fits me very well; Man United fits me very well because it's in me. It's in your personality. It's ingrained in you. I understand the club.

Confidence is not something you store in the fridge and pick out. You earn it by your performances, by your training, how you feel.

Finishing is different to shooting. If you work at in in training sessions then you will just do it naturally during the game.

If you want to stay at Manchester United and win trophies and be successful, then you have to work through the reserve games, and that is what I am doing.

I had three years of success with Molde, winning the League twice and the Cup. I thought I was fully prepared, that I was ready for the Premier League. But it's a completely different world there. Everything is much bigger.

I'm the manager of Cardiff City Football Club, and I'm not to lay down and feel sorry for myself.

Throughout my life, ever since I played for Clausenengen back home, instead of listening to the teacher at school, I was writing down all the chances I missed in a book thinking 'I should have done this.' Scoring goals was all I thought about.

The more mistakes you make, the more you learn.