Quotes from Steve Nicol

Teams that come up, as soon as they realise they're in big trouble the first thing they do is change the manger.

If you are coaching kids, the smile on a kid when he does the right thing, when he puts the ball in the net, that's the reward right there.

Having the Kraft family involved in your club can only be good news.

I'm proud of my record at the Revs - 299 games, 110 wins, 108 draws, 81 losses - but even if I was to get the chance to coach those last two years again - 2010 and 2011 - I reckon I'd still have found it difficult to ensure a different outcome.

When it comes to Real Madrid, anything's possible.

Players when they're linked with Real Madrid, their eyes light up.

Nobody thought Real Madrid could win three Champions Leagues on the trot, and they've done it.

Mourinho criticised Eden Hazard for not doing his defensive duties. Eden Hazard is the type of player that you take that responsibility off.

When you're a head coach there's never a minute of the day when you're not thinking about your team. But when things aren't going well any problems are just accentuated.

Man United under Fergie were about winning Champions League titles and winning Premier League titles.

Eat like a horse? Fine, just not six bags of crisps on a matchday!

It's the same with most injuries, different players take different amounts of time.

When you're signing an older player, part of it is can he help the rest of the team with his professionalism, with the way he goes about training every day?

I love the way managers and coaches can spin people signing a new contract into telling us it's a transfer, 'these are our transfers.'

Two of my most important signings were made at the beginning of 2004. I took 20-year-old Clint Dempsey with the eighth pick of the MLS SuperDraft and added 51-year-old ex-Arsenal striker Paul Mariner as my assistant on a free transfer from Harvard University, where he'd been coaching.

I left Liverpool during the 1993-94 season to join Notts County as a player-coach under Howard Kendall.

Winning is the deodorant of the game, it covers all bad smells.

Both my parents were keen golfers and Dad was such a creature of habit that he didn't see much of me at Ayr United because he always played a round on Saturdays. He was an old-school parent of his time and I've no complaints.

Barcelona don't bring in players for the sake of 'well if things get tough, we can always bring defenders on or we can have a guy in the middle who is going to run around and kick people and chase them.'

My best season at New England was probably my first in charge. We reached the final of the Major League Soccer Cup in 2002, losing in extra time against Los Angeles Galaxy.

Obviously, if you go to any football club in the world, you're going to get guys taking the mickey out of one another, but I would say that in Liverpool it was a lot closer to the knuckle.

At the end of the day, if you want to go somewhere you can make it happen.

You are going to lead a miserable life if you only do it for the money. You are never going to be happy.

There's nothing wrong with crying and moaning, but you can do that for a minute and then you get on with it.