Quotes from Steve Nicol

If the guys up front don't get possession, they can't score.

When you change your lineups all the time, you lose that continuity. It's all over the place.

I've always felt I've made a contribution wherever I've been.

Listen, there's always a pitfall around the corner somewhere. You know it's coming, you don't know when it's going to come.

Winning covers a lot of bad things.

A big reason why you take a chance on a 34-year-old who has bags of experience, is a great player is to pass that on to your younger players.

I've no idea if I'll manage in the Premier League. It's easy to say I will but you don't know.

There are a whole load of different pressures that go with being the head coach, manager, whatever you want to call it. And everybody who's done it, there are times when it becomes too much and you need some sort of break while you figure out how you de-stress, if you want.

If you've got Godin and Chiellini as your centre-backs, then you can have more attacking full-backs, as opposed to defensive ones.

I'm a real believer in getting on with the job you have - anything that happens in the future is dictated by what you do now.

Landon Donovan has always been about being the focal point of the team.

Let me tell you, when you play for a team that has the teammates and fans that Liverpool have then you always have a soft spot for them. It never leaves you.

Everyone in sport loves winning - that's why we get involved - but there are different ways to win.

To get players for MLS, we sometimes had to go to places where nobody else goes. The big teams have global scouting networks but we had to be creative.

The days of 35-year-old pros turning up in the States to earn easy money before retiring are long gone and the MLS is a really competitive league.

Father Time catches up with us all.

It's very strange, it's absolutely extraordinary to get to four finals and not win one of them.

Everyone has talent; it's finding a player who fits in, who's better than what we have.

We had something over Everton in those games during the Eighties. We knew it and they did too. It was a huge thing to have, that psychological advantage, and we made the most of it.

That's part of Jurgen Klopp's job, is to psychologically find out how to get his players playing.

The problem I had with Raheem Sterling when he left Liverpool was not the fact that he was leaving Liverpool. Any professional footballer wants to go to where they think they're going to win things, where the money is and everything else and that was Manchester City.

Football is like this, from time to time things don't work out.

If you have mental toughness then on days when you go to Hull, the pitch is bobbly, the wind howling, you end up with something. It's as much about that as silky soccer.

I'm very thankful to the Krafts for giving me the opportunity to be their head coach. I've had some great times and been involved with some great players and great people.