In this game, you're on your own. You either sink or swim.

I'll answer as many questions as I can, but when people have a contract at other football clubs, I think it's wrong to talk about them.

You don't manage more than 900 games, mostly in the top half of the Premier League, if you haven't got something that enables you to cope with pressure.

I've worked for a long time to get myself in a position where maybe I'd be fortunate enough to land one of the big jobs.

I've got huge affection for Everton. It was my life for over a decade.

It's true that players can take time to settle at a new club. I remember people telling me it took Patrice Evra and Nemanja Vidic a while - players who became great players for United.

I worked hard at Preston.

Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.

I think I'm capable of doing the job at any club in the world, so I'm sure I can do it at West Ham.

If you want to keep your best players, you need top European football because they want to be involved in that.

I've had my down times, as every manager does, but I bounce back pretty quickly.

I don't think I'm any worse for my bad experiences. Actually, they have made me better.

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.

We had a really good club at Everton who gave me the opportunity to do the job the way I felt it needed to be done.

I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.

I'll do everything I can to get West Ham as far up the table as I can.

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 took over from Sir Alex, and it was always going to take time, whoever was in charge.

The manager needs to be given the opportunity to get on with his job and be given that time that he needs.

I had a great time at Everton when I was there and came away from that with a lot of high regard.

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

I think sometimes you need a run and a bit of confidence with getting the goals.

I would like it to be the rules all round the world that that is the case - you manage the country of your birth.

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

I love to see goals and attacking play; I want us to be entertaining. But it's no good if you're shipping goals.

I would have to consider the U.S.A. job if I was approached because it's one of the big nations in world football, with massive growth potential.

I don't think managers have the opportunity to think in terms of a long-term vision for a club.

I gave everything I could in trying to make Everton the best I could.

We had some glorious nights at Goodison and the fans were superb.

Bill Kenwright has taught me how to deal with people.

You can't ring up another manager and say, 'Who do you think I should pick this week?' But you take the good and bad from people as you go along.

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

I'm always very careful when I'm spending the club's money. I treat it like it's my own, and I always try to sign players for what I feel is the right price.

With Marouane's hair, I actually wondered if it might take a bit of the pace off the ball when he went up for a header. But I soon realised it was part of his personality. Part of who he is.

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.

I worked hard at Everton.

I hope I can fulfill all my ambitions at Everton. But you never know in this game.

Manchester United isn't about Wayne Rooney. Manchester United is about the team, the club.

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

I think people know that I've got things in my mind that I want to do and things I wanted to change in time. I can't do it all overnight.

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.

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.

Going back to my playing days, I was at Cambridge United for a couple of seasons, and, of course, Newmarket is just down the road. On my days off, I would go to Newmarket quite often, park up by the gallops, and watch the horses work. It was something else.

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

In England, I always liked the way Terry Venables worked.

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.

I was a footballer for a long, long time.

The job at Everton was so good. I worked for a great chairman, great people at the club.

I'd been at Everton for more than 11 years. We'd qualified for the Champions League, got to an FA Cup final. I'd been voted manager of the season three times.

I don't think I've necessarily got anything to prove to anyone. I've worked really hard my whole career.