All I can ever promise is that I will do my very best.
— Brendan Rodgers
The experience of travelling, getting familiar with other languages, other cultures definitely helps. It makes you a better person.
All players, whether they're Spanish, French, English, Welsh, want to play football. To play.
The only thing that Celtic doesn't have is the propaganda, which is the Premier League. In every other aspect of football, Celtic is a huge club: fan base, stadium and history. They have a fantastic history. What it doesn't have is the opportunity to play in the Premier League.
Don't be afraid to make mistakes and be able to laugh at yourself.
When I went in to Liverpool, my job in the first season was to cut the budget. You only need to look at the players who left. Maxi Rodriguez, Alberto Aquilani, Pepe Reina.
As a guy from Northern Ireland who supported Celtic and worked in football, I'm living my dream here.
You can go to Old Trafford as Liverpool manager and get a draw, and it's not a bad result. At Celtic, there's an expectancy to win home and away.
I think wherever you go, you have to go to win.
I speak to the Spanish players that we have in Spanish.
There's different types of strikers: Harry Kane is a wonderful finisher, Jamie Vardy has great pace and has come onto the scene exceptionally well and is playing consistently, and Wayne Rooney is a player I have admired during all of his career.
You always want to win games and to develop the team, so it's very important that you have encouragement from your fans.
I've been fortunate enough to work with lots of really good players, so it would be disrespectful to single out the best.
I've always had one in my teams - that sort of central pivot that orchestrates the game.
I love the Premier League, the quality of the players, the quality of the coaches. There are great challenges. But there are arms and legs flying off managers down there.
Liverpool is one of the superpowers of world football.
I've got huge respect for Arsenal as a club.
Celtic are the club I supported as a boy, and I loved every moment I was there. For me to leave there, I knew I was going to have to not just come to a club, but I had to come to a special club that was going to allow me to connect with the players and hopefully the supporters, too.
My father loved European football; he also loved the Brazilian team. His own dad loved the Brazilian team.
Refereeing is always an issue where you want to have the best officials, and I think the referees do their very best in the games, but we always want to improve standards across the league.
Football's a global game.
I've always been inspired by people who can speak other languages.
I love my work.
I know how quickly it can all change. I nearly won the title at Liverpool, and everybody's saying, 'Sign him up' - then, very quickly, I was out.
I think all you can worry is that you make the team the very best they can be.
Sometimes keepers are looked at differently to outfield players.
I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.
I had a wonderful time at Liverpool. My three and a half years there was a great experience.
It's very difficult to say that a player is irreplaceable because the nature of football means that someone always steps in to take the shirt and provides different elements to your team.
My message is always very, very clear: I'm very concentrated on the game.
What you have in Scotland is an unpredictability with surfaces - and I've already said you don't get good games on artificial turf - and that can affect performances and results.
You can have X amount of pounds in your bank every month, but if you're not happy, and you're not finding peace in what you're doing, it doesn't really matter.
You make mistakes in your life, especially when you're young.
Believe it or not, the sky is blue here in Glasgow. I absolutely love it here.
I am better when I have control. I am not a power freak. But my point is that I need to feel that I can manage the team and have a direct, clear line through to the owners. Once that becomes hazy, for me, there is a problem.
Everything we did on the training pitch, we did with the ball. You'll never see a pianist run around his piano. People ask me, 'Why don't you run through the forest, through the trees?' Well, I've never seen a tree on a football field.
It was important for me, when I left a club like Liverpool, to one, have a breather, but then my next job, I needed pressure. And there's a pressure at Celtic. It's a huge club; there's an expectancy to win every game.
I always think if you speak to someone in their second language, you speak to their head. If you speak in their first, you speak to their heart. I've always tried to let players see that.
I always felt that by the time I would leave Chelsea I was ready to be a number one. I'd had a long apprenticeship so when I was to go, it would to be a No. 1.
All my career I have done that, worked with talents, improving 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 17-year-olds, 18-year-olds.
The biggest thing you can have as a football manager is happiness and energy.
I'm enriched by all my experiences, good and bad, but I've always tried to remain committed in my life as a coach and always positive.
Liverpool is one of the great institutions of the world, and you understand that when you see it from the outside, but you only really get to know when you go inside as manager.
As a coach, we are not magicians; we work with the players and look to improve them and give them every opportunity, but if you are not creating or scoring goals over a consistent period of time, it is difficult for you as a coach.
If you are going to be successful, there is no point in having three or four top individual players, because those players will win you games, but they will never win you titles.
The likability of any player is always up for debate, and people will always use their own moral compass to judge Luis Suarez, but that's not something I tend to focus on. I concentrate on what he is like with me on a day-to-day basis, and he is a great man.
My decision was that after nearly three years at Celtic - with everything we'd achieved and the success we'd had on the pitch, the improvements off the pitch - then it was time to move on to my next challenge.
Celtic are one of the great clubs of the world. There's a pressure here that's different. You have to win every game. There's not a club in England that has that.
If you're happy, ultimately, that's all that matters.
Liverpool give young players a good opportunity.
