Quotes from Neil Warnock

You can only go so far in the Premier League before you have to spend.

If you look at my past in the Premier League, without going into too many details, I don't think I had much of a chance at any of them, for different reasons.

I don't have a desire to prove people wrong, as such, because if you take a look at my Premier League record it's not too bad.

There's two or three managers I can't stand. I detest them and they know that.

I can't replicate how I feel when that whistle goes on nights like that, knowing you've won it, that people are going home smiling. You don't get that sat on my tractor in Plymouth or doing the shop in Tesco.

No disrespect to Cardiff but they probably needed me more than I needed them, when I was appointed.

My teams have never been supposed to be able to do the things that they do.

I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.

I'm not sure I will watch a lot of professional football once I've retired.

At Plymouth I wrote 'Neil Warnock's Wembley Way', a one-year diary, to show people what being a manager was like. I got lucky as the year ended with us winning promotion through the play-offs at Wembley.

I love the way the Cardiff fans get behind their team, which is why I do that clenched fist action at the end of games. They get really up for the match, I can hear them and I just help offer my own support in return.

Apparently I have 12 league games to go to get 1,500 and that is really tempting to me.

You do understand when you get into management that you will get the sack at some stage, but that never puts people off trying again.

As for myself, you never know what is round the corner in football.

I am finding I have to watch what I am doing otherwise I may as well be in full-time football again and, while I'm available if something interesting comes up to take me to the end of the season, I don't want a long-term commitment at this stage in my life.

My son William and my daughter Amy are both really into their hockey now and I can enjoy watching that.

My son William is only nine but he's had four public schools so far, one in Cornwall, one when I was at Sheffield, one in Beckenham when I was at Palace.

It's the last question mark against me in my career. Why couldn't I keep a team in the Premier League.

I'm glad to see goal-line technology working; we should have had it for years. I do believe we will soon see managers being allowed one, or two, challenges.

I would like to wish Harry Redknapp the best of luck filling my old seat in the dugout at Queen's Park Rangers. It was one of the achievements of my managerial career getting QPR back into the Premier League after a 15-year absence and I would be very sad to see them go back down after all the hard work the players, staff and myself put in.

Older readers will remember there used to be matches on Christmas Day. I remember leaving the fireside and the presents to watch matches on the day as a boy but such matches were rare by the time I began playing.

There's got to be a role for an experienced football person helping the manager; not being a threat to the manager, but helping and sorting out a lot of the hassle he has, you know? Letting him concentrate on managing the football side.

When I joined QPR in March 2010 we were rock bottom and heading for League One. We conceded too many and didn't score enough, which was a recipe for relegation.

Working at Palace was one of the happiest episodes of my football career, even though the ending was one of the most upsetting and traumatic.