Quotes from David Moyes

I have no regrets about taking the United job. When you get offered a job like that, you take it.

I watch a lot of football. It was always my hobby. My wife just sits there with a bored face, thinking, 'Is he really watching this?'

I have a point to prove. Sometimes you have to repair things, and maybe I have a little bit that I need to repair.

Alan Shearer was tough, would be hard to play against, a difficult opponent.

Your reputation doesn't stand for anything. You have to come and try to get up and show you're capable of doing the job.

Football is not always as glamourous as some might imagine, as the story of the first time I signed Marouane Fellaini perhaps illustrates.

You're never going to go through a season with no injuries.

Manchester United was a club with great traditions, traditions where they tended to pick British managers. That tradition has now gone.

It will not get better than Sir Alex Ferguson. It just won't.

Do I feel I should have been given more time? Of course I do. To go to a club like Manchester United and follow someone like Sir Alex after the time he had been there, to stay for ten months... It couldn't be a revolution at Manchester United; it had to be evolution. It had to take time.

I've always admired great football managers, and Sir Alex Ferguson had so much success.

Managers get interviewed for jobs, but I think it should be the managers who are interviewing the chairman.

If you play for Manchester United, there is always someone out there getting ready to take your jersey. It is up to you to fight and make sure you keep it.

Real Sociedad fans are fantastic; they know that the club is trying to join the other teams who are always in the top part of the table - to get as close to them as possible.

As a young Scottish footballer growing up - I always used to follow Scotland and watch the games - Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, and Joe Jordan were players I looked up to.

Bryan Gray at Preston gave me a chance, even though Joe Royle and Ian Rush were being linked with the job. He taught me an awful lot about structuring the job and encouraged me to invest in young players.

I'm a great believer in the lower leagues, the pyramid system, but there is mileage in having B-teams in England with young players playing competitively.

I'm desperately ambitious, and one of the things I haven't been able to do at Everton is win a trophy.

I agree with Arsene Wenger that finishing in the top four is the equivalent of winning a trophy - even if you don't get to parade silverware.

Messi gets kicked by everybody, and he gets up and carries on. Doesn't scream, doesn't fake injury.

I'm going to be direct with the players. If they don't like it, then I'm sorry.

I had plenty of opportunities before I went to Spain to stay in England, and I had made a decision that I would go and work in Spain.

Celtic's a brilliant football club, and they have an unbelievable fan base - one of the biggest in the world.

I don't think anyone ever turns down their national team opportunity, but I think it has to be at the right time.