Quotes from Harry Redknapp

I don't fear the sack, but I take results home with me. And when I don't win... I am no use to anybody because I get low.

When I was a kid, there used to be a family section in every club where it would be all kids. That stopped.

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.

I do wonder how managers like Brian Clough and Bill Shankly would cope. How would Cloughie deal with players taking five pairs of different colour boots to a game?

I haven't got an old man's brain. I have got a sharp mind and enjoy doing what I do.

You shouldn't be paying massive wages when you've got a stadium that holds 18,000 people.

When I left Portsmouth, I was happy. I'd had a great two years there, but I wanted a break. I needed a break.

I am a fantastic football manager, not a hard-headed businessman.

Ryan Giggs just had an athlete's physique. He could run all day.

The players don't sit in there and think, 'We have to make the Champions League.' They want to play well in every game.

Losing produces a weird reaction in me. I surrender all sense of perspective. It's ridiculous, really. All this over a football match.

I've found myself on some days leaving home at three in the morning. I'm outside the training ground at five but they don't open up until seven. I'm just sitting there, listening to the radio.

My mum and dad never went abroad for a holiday. My dad was overseas in the war but never thought about going anywhere like the Mediterranean after that, so my mum died without ever having been on a plane or abroad.

I don't think it can be in the genes. If you see the amount of footballers, how many sons play football? Not many.

Luka Modric is an outstanding footballer, a great player.

There're plenty of good people in football - mostly players and managers.

I very much doubt that it could happen again that any manager would do 20 years with a top Premiership club.

I can't work a computer.

Football wears you out, and when things are not going well, it's not enjoyable.

I've still got a scrapbook at home of the Munich air crash. I was an Arsenal supporter, and I went with my dad every week. I would have been 11 in 1958 and remember standing at Highbury for the Busby Babes. I remember that was the last game before they jetted off to Europe, and a lot of them never came back.

We are givers, not takers.

There is some right old rubbish talked about Gareth Bale's time with me at Tottenham. Was I ever going to sell Bale? No. Was I going to loan him? No.

All my mates are West Ham supporters; I went there at 15.

I've not made my name as a wheeler and dealer. Don't say that.