Quotes from Steve Clarke

It's lovely being back in the west of Scotland, really nice.

What I want is players who are 100 per cent committed.

I won't be chasing down players who have retired. I only want players who are 100% committed to Scotland.

When I bump into Scotland supporters they are pretty positive. They just want a little bit of success. I don't think that's too much for them to ask.

The thing is, if nobody points out what's wrong, then nothing will ever be done about it.

I will miss the day to day stuff because I love coaching. I love being out on the pitch.

Everyone talks about VAR, which is great. It will help the referees no end. But if you've got VAR in place and VAR becomes the ref, I'm not sure that's good for the game.

I have to get used to international management. The players will go back to their clubs, they will all be playing at the weekend, they will all be thinking about other things.

We had a black and white telly in the corner of the room that had three channels. There was nothing to keep you around the house. It was a different time.

I was happy working on my golf and doing a bit of fishing.

You know when you take a manager's job it could be terminal. I was making sure there was enough in the bank to cover that, making sure myself and my family would be all right when I took the plunge.

Scottish football has always been about Celtic and Rangers, but we've rattled some cages and that's been good. The more competition they have, the better for Scotland as a whole.

When I was a player back in the 80s, Rangers didn't sign Catholic players. There was an enquiry when Graeme Souness took over about me going to Rangers. At the time I was told I couldn't do that.

I feel I did a good job at West Brom. It was cut short abruptly, which is something historically that West Brom have done - as you've recently seen with Darren Moore.

A burning ambition of mine is to take Scotland to a major tournament. It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup finals with their country.

It should be the pinnacle of any players' career to get to a World Cup Finals with their country.

It remains an ambiton of mine to get to a major finals with Scotland.

At Kilmarnock we are all inclusive, there are no divides.

I want to make the Tartan Army happy and qualify for a major tournament. That's the goal.

If you are playing at home to Cyprus you have to be on the front foot. You have to get the crowd onside, get at them, create chances and keep the back door closed so you don't lose any silly goals when you are on top in a game.

If people are coming in in dribs and drabs, it doesn't look good. You have to have standards and have rules to adhere to. If you have that then it carries on into the training.

In football you tend to drift away and on to the next job; you bump into someone after two or three years and it's the same as seeing them yesterday.

I think I worked out in my head it's something like 75 training sessions before you've got them pretty well drilled. You're not going to get that in international football so you're relying on their intelligence and the ability of the players to slot in.

My father was my No.1 influence, long before him actually being involved with my youth team.