Quotes from Mark Hughes

I'd knock people over and bruise their pride, but I never went out to hurt people. That is not acceptable, and I don't want to see it in my team.

Competing in the Premier League is more difficult than winning trophies in plenty of countries abroad.

There's a full Football League programme every Tuesday, so I see those games and get to check out people like Paul Jones and Robbie Savage by playing against them.

Sometimes you have to park things you're not happy with, because there are more important things to be done.

If Ryan Giggs was plying his trade and been the player he had been here in a foreign league, he would go straight from playing to an AC Milan or Inter Milan or any top European club out of the mix.

Players' moods change on a daily basis, so it depends how you find your players, and up to you to get the best out of them.

Football's become a non-contact sport, and that's spoiled a lot of the fun for a lot of the people, including spectators.

There are certain games where you have to hold your hands up, take your medicine, and move on to the next one.

Every United player understands what United is about. The players understand it is a privilege to play for United.

At City, I didn't realise how much we had to do until we got there. Here, I didn't need to change the staff because there is quality already. So they certainly don't need me getting in the way in training by trying to show I can still play. No way.

It's no secret that I enjoyed the physical side when I was a player. I was a bumps-and-bruises man.

I would like to think that during my time at Stoke - and other clubs I was at - I was always a manager that wanted to play in the right way, with purpose, with drive, and to try to dictate to the opposition if you could.

The four and a half years I had at Stoke is something I will always look back on with pride because it was a huge achievement. To be able to last in a high profile job as long as I did showed that, for the most part, I did a decent job there.