I have never written a letter in my life.

I've not made my name as a wheeler and dealer. Don't say that.

We are givers, not takers.

I have not purposely gone out to try to avoid paying income tax.

I have brought up a fantastic family.

To try and nick a few quid off the income tax... Why? I am not into that. I don't need that.

I love animals, all animals - apart from cats. I'm a little bit scared of cats.

Am I scared of anything? Yeah, everything.

I don't think I can eat emu.

I told Birmingham I don't want nothing, I'm not interested in the money.

Show me someone who has never made a mistake in their life, and I'll show you a liar. It happens.

I do get text messages from people with sick jokes on when something terrible has happened. I don't read them; they make me ill. But it does happen, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who gets them.

Lots of people do that silly tweeting.

I don't know what an email is.

I have never sent a fax, and I've never even sent a text message.

I can't work a computer.

I'm a realist.

If I could help someone somewhere, help a young manager, I'd love that. I did it at Derby with Darren Wassall and had a great time.

For me, sitting there, watching them pass the ball, watching them train - you want to be around good players.

Gareth Bale could play anywhere.

Luka Modric could get into almost any team.

I don't hold grudges.

I very much doubt that it could happen again that any manager would do 20 years with a top Premiership club.

There's only so much you can say to any group of players before they stop listening.

I enjoy going to Old Trafford. I love the tradition.

I've still got a scrapbook at home of the Munich air crash. I was an Arsenal supporter, and I went with my dad every week. I would have been 11 in 1958 and remember standing at Highbury for the Busby Babes. I remember that was the last game before they jetted off to Europe, and a lot of them never came back.

I am not a 34-year-old manager trying to make my way in the game; I have been around a long time.

I love what I do; I want to continue doing it, I work hard at my job.

I haven't got an old man's brain. I have got a sharp mind and enjoy doing what I do.

I don't fear the sack, but I take results home with me. And when I don't win... I am no use to anybody because I get low.

I've heard of Francis Drake and Ted Drake. But I don't know who Drake is.

When I was a kid, there used to be a family section in every club where it would be all kids. That stopped.

I don't think it can be in the genes. If you see the amount of footballers, how many sons play football? Not many.

I wouldn't fart in front of my wife, and she wouldn't do it in front of me.

I see it every week - parents shouting and screaming at kids. My dad was the same. He was always there, but he never interfered. Ron Greenwood, who was the manager of West Ham when I was a kid, wouldn't allow any parent to shout from the touchline. He thought players should be allowed to think for themselves.

When I left Portsmouth, I was happy. I'd had a great two years there, but I wanted a break. I needed a break.

Southampton is my last job. I might have said it before, but this time, I really mean it.

There're plenty of good people in football - mostly players and managers.

Football wears you out, and when things are not going well, it's not enjoyable.

At West Ham, I was never able to buy the top-flight players. It was a case of looking around, trying to do deals. I was always taking a gamble.

I've enjoyed my time at every club I have worked at, I've been lucky, but I won't jump in and finish up working with a chairman I didn't like very much.

When I was a player, you only left the club if they wanted to get rid of you. That was your team - if you were at West Ham, you didn't leave until the manager wanted to replace you. You didn't think about playing for Arsenal or Chelsea.

You now have these owners who are all successful businessmen, and they think they should be winning. They come in thinking that they should be winning. Some don't understand that only one team can win the league.

I am not a tax fiddler. I am not any kind of tax fiddler, never have been in my life.

You shouldn't be paying massive wages when you've got a stadium that holds 18,000 people.

I've got no hobbies - a game of golf every now and again, but that's it.

I don't go to Cheltenham. Too busy. It does my head in.

If there is anybody who feels they are not in the right frame of mind to play, then obviously, I would not play them.

I have been around football all my life, and it doesn't happen. It never enters my mind. I don't think, 'Oh, what's going to happen to me at the end of the season?' Whatever happens to me, happens.

The players don't sit in there and think, 'We have to make the Champions League.' They want to play well in every game.