Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.
— David Moyes
Manchester United was a club with great traditions, traditions where they tended to pick British managers. That tradition has now gone.
I think retrospective viewing of diving is nearly more important than some of the technology they are on about bringing in. If you do that and players get banned, it wouldn't take long before you'd cut it out.
Mistakes can come at any time; the thing is to make sure you don't make too many.
Alan Shearer was tough, would be hard to play against, a difficult opponent.
I don't think I'm any worse for my bad experiences. Actually, they have made me better.
When I took over at Everton, the challenge for us was to try to go toe-to-toe with a club having success in Europe and sometimes competing for the Premier League.
Phil Neville could be on the road to one day, maybe, becoming the England manager. I know him closely. He was a great captain, a great leader. He's had great experience.
I have always been an advocate of players and coaches going abroad if that's the right opportunity.
Maybe it's old-fashioned, but I've always preferred to see players with my own eyes than on a video or going on somebody else's recommendation. If that means getting up early and taking a flight, then so be it. Our success at Everton came from having a great recruitment team who I made sure were out watching the players.
You don't always get what you want, but you work at it.
I turned down Premier League jobs; I didn't think they were right.
I watch a lot of football. It was always my hobby. My wife just sits there with a bored face, thinking, 'Is he really watching this?'
I don't think I've necessarily got anything to prove to anyone. I've worked really hard my whole career.
The job at Everton was so good. I worked for a great chairman, great people at the club.
In England, I always liked the way Terry Venables worked.
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.
I think, in football, you have to go through difficulties.
Clubs are much stronger than any one individual.
Supporters don't like the idea of people going to ground too easily. Everyone who has ever played football, everyone who's been involved, would hate that. You'd be saying, 'Get Up!'
I have no regrets about taking the United job. When you get offered a job like that, you take it.
Danny Welbeck was great for us at Manchester United.
Football has always been in my blood. It's more than just an occupation, but as you get a little bit older and wiser, you want to be able to pick and choose and make sure you get the right club at the right time.
I'm a great believer in the lower leagues, the pyramid system, but there is mileage in having B-teams in England with young players playing competitively.
It's good that we have good managers like Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger in this countr,y but I think we should be trying to send out some of our managers to other countries to help not just the development of themselves but the leagues over here. It can enhance their careers.
Doesn't everyone in life deserve a chance to show what they can do?
It was too short: I've said many times that I would have done things differently had I known I'd only have 10 months because United are one of the few clubs in football who could have given a manager more time, like Bill Kenwright did with me at Everton.
Messi gets kicked by everybody, and he gets up and carries on. Doesn't scream, doesn't fake injury.
I'm going to be direct with the players. If they don't like it, then I'm sorry.
People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.
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 was a footballer for a long, long time.
I've always admired great football managers, and Sir Alex Ferguson had so much success.
If you want to keep your best players, you need top European football because they want to be involved in that.
Chicharito is a really good player, and his finishing ability is as good as there is anywhere.
The Merseyside derby is a terrific game full of passion, full of quality.
At the top end I do think it's time we have goal-line technology, I'm not mad on other technology but certainly goal-line technology.
I was very fortunate that I had a great scouting staff at Everton from the academy, because it was those people who got the likes of Ross Barkley and Wayne Rooney when they were young.
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.
The last thing I'd ever want to see is another manager being sacked. I certainly don't like the phrase 'sacking season.'
It took time at Everton to build a team so that when we did go to United or Arsenal or Liverpool, we went with a good chance of getting a result.
One of the reasons why I wanted to be part of the League Managers Association was because I felt there were an awful lot of foreign coaches coming into these shores, but we were not exporting enough British talent.
Coaches are important, but the senior players at a club are crucial.
Managers get interviewed for jobs, but I think it should be the managers who are interviewing the chairman.
I would never have left Everton if it hadn't been Manchester United.
I would be very surprised if Phil Neville didn't go into management and possibly Johnny Heitinga, too.
It's definitely better to be a good league team than a good cup team. It shows consistency. The cup could be down to a lucky draw and might not show the value of your team like the league does.
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.
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.
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.
