Quotes from Sven-Goran Eriksson

When I was at Shanghai SIPG, I had the Brazilian player Hulk, who had joined for over £50 million from Zenit St Petersburg. He had no problems with life in China - his only problem was that he got injured on his debut and was out for two months after that. But I never heard him complain about life in China at all - everything else was good.

No-one wants to finish a job badly. If you know that you are going to finish your job in six months, then you want to finish well.

Personally, I was oblivious to any financial hardships that my parents endured.

My second year in Rome was very good. Back then, a striker was a striker. Strikers scored goals; they didn't defend. Today this is normal, but it wasn't at that time. If you wanted to play my style of football you couldn't have old players or famous players who were unwilling to do the job both ways: attacking and also defending.

I have remained a Lazio fan and that was the strongest team I ever coached.

My role as Manchester City manager was different to being manager of clubs in other countries. You share responsibility more in other European countries. You have the last word, though, in who to buy and who plays and things like that.

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass.

No woman was good enough for me, according to my mother.

The big question for me is - are the players happy? Because in my mind it is all about building the right relationship with your players and creating the right atmosphere.

You know I never hate anyone in my life. I don't think I have many enemies but I hate Samir Khan because you can't treat people like he has done.

I've always been a Liverpool fan.

We need goals when the scoreline is zero zero