Quotes from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

If you lose, you are out; if you win, you are the flavour of the month.

That's the most important thing in football: you need to take chances when you get them.

Being in the gaffer's seat is very special.

Manchester United have always stood up again and bounced back; it's just in the DNA.

It's always this thing about being the big brother and the little brother coming to try to overtake the big brother. That always happens in families and in clubs - the young player hoping to take the old player's position - and City are hoping to overtake United. I don't think they'll ever be able to, though.

It's down to the players, but when you're at Man United, there isn't a lot of greener grass on the other side. You are at the best place.

Norway is a small environment. There are only three to four agents to deal with, just 15 other clubs, and that's it!

When you are in a football club, you stick together. That's the key.

In any game, you have to work to stay in it, especially away against a good team like Southampton. It's a fantastic club and one I've said on a few occasions Cardiff City would do well to emulate, both on and off the field.

I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.

In games, you have plans, you have strategies, and you follow them.

Every single player needs that eye-to-eye connection, I'm sure. They want to know what is expected of them, but it's not just me telling them what to do. It's about asking, 'What are your strengths? What do you feel? What can you give to the team?'

I was always the 'boring' type. I was into the stats and spending hours and hours and hours studying them. I was always more a manager than a player.

When people doubt me, I love it.

You cannot outperform your ego.

I like people. I like to speak to people, engage with people.

I said no to Aston Villa because I was not ready. I said yes to Cardiff because I felt ready. But I was not.

Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.

I'm very confident in my own ability as a manager.

If I had been at any other club but United, then I think I would have gone to the manager and asked to leave. But I want to stay here and win things.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

I understand there are so many managers who would love to be manager of Manchester United, and I am one of them.

Every manager dreams of managing Manchester United.