Quotes from Walter Smith

it's important to understand that if your fears grow, you could end up holding both yourself and the other person back from living life to its full potential and successfully recovering from the traumatic experience which you saw them have. Tackling

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used

My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.

There are people for whom Rangers Football Club is their entire way of life.

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.

The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.

Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.