The arrival of Arsene Wenger in 1996 certainly heralded a change in English football. He was very successful very quickly, and suddenly, all the talk was about his revolutionary new training methods.
— Harry Redknapp
My mum and dad never went abroad for a holiday. My dad was overseas in the war but never thought about going anywhere like the Mediterranean after that, so my mum died without ever having been on a plane or abroad.
On the night of June 30, 1990, a minibus in which I was travelling was involved in a head-on collision on a road near Latina, in the region of Lazio, near Rome.
Roy Race was a comic book hero, and Steven Gerrard is a real-life one.
Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player.
I remember the terrible winter in 1963, clearing the snow off the forecourt at Upton Park with the rest of the players so we could train. Job done, we'd play on it for two hours in silly little plimsolls, sliding everywhere.
The fans pay good money to watch their team, so they are entitled to their opinion.
I do enjoy seeing footballers every day, being on the training ground.
Down at Bournemouth, I kicked a tray of cups up into air, and one hit Luther Blissett on the head. He flicked it on, and it went all over my suit hanging behind. Another time, at West Ham, I also threw a plate of sandwiches at Don Hutchison. He's sitting there, still arguing with me, with cheese and tomato running down his face.
I feed foxes. I'm not supposed to, but I love it.
Dave Mackay was one of the best I've ever seen. Jimmy Greaves was the greatest goal scorer, and George Best was just the best. The greatest.
I could write a book - if I could write, ha ha - about how many times I've been ripped off lending money to people. I'm an absolutely unbelievable soft touch. Unbelievable. I never learn my lesson.
I can't write - I don't even know how to punctuate.
I am a fantastic football manager, not a hard-headed businessman.
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.
I've got no hobbies - a game of golf every now and again, but that's it.
Nobody at the FA has ever explained why I was overlooked and not even asked for an interview.
Ryan Giggs just had an athlete's physique. He could run all day.
In the Fifties, Canvey was a top seaside place for a youngster - the famous Canvey Island Casino was full of slot machines and there were all the fairground rides, such as the dodgems, and a speedway track.
Despite all that has happened in his career since, one of the biggest regrets of my life in management is not taking Luis Suarez to Tottenham when we had the chance.
Losing produces a weird reaction in me. I surrender all sense of perspective. It's ridiculous, really. All this over a football match.
There is some right old rubbish talked about Gareth Bale's time with me at Tottenham. Was I ever going to sell Bale? No. Was I going to loan him? No.
Lionel Messi reminds me of George Best, the way he would run with the ball tight to his foot.
I've been around a long time. I've seen it all before.
People think I'm all calm, but underneath I'm not.
To me, there's no point in having confrontation for the sake of it.
You can look at stats as much as you want - and we do - but you can have too much of it. You can spend too much time looking at computers rather than looking at the real thing which is out there on the pitch. I still think that being a good judge of players is the most important thing.
I do wonder how managers like Brian Clough and Bill Shankly would cope. How would Cloughie deal with players taking five pairs of different colour boots to a game?
I don't know what goes on in prison. I've never been in trouble with the police in my life.
I don't write. I couldn't even fill a team sheet in.
Luka Modric is an outstanding footballer, a great player.
If there is anybody who feels they are not in the right frame of mind to play, then obviously, I would not play them.
You shouldn't be paying massive wages when you've got a stadium that holds 18,000 people.
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 never went overseas until I left school and joined West Ham United Football Club at the beginning of the Sixties.
When I was a kid, all our seaside holidays were spent on Canvey Island or in Clacton-on-Sea.
Scholes was playing tiki-taka football when nobody in England knew what it was. He was another of those players, like Denis Law or Bobby Moore, who at 15 probably looked as if he wouldn't make it.
After my heart operation, I was given tablets, but, I'll admit, half the time I forget to take them. I carry them around in the car. Little triangular things - I don't know what they are, to be honest.
I was fortunate to spend the Sixties working for one of the greatest football minds this country has ever produced: Ron Greenwood.
No one is more of a fan of the game than me: my son is a player.
I don't live my life feeling bitter about anything. I've been so lucky. I've had such a great life.
I am a worrier.
I just thought Spurs were a challenge that I had to take on.
If you buy too many bad players, you don't last in this game.
I'm useless around the house.
I went to the worst school you've ever seen.
I've got no business acumen whatsoever.
The players don't sit in there and think, 'We have to make the Champions League.' They want to play well in every game.
I don't go to Cheltenham. Too busy. It does my head in.
I am not a tax fiddler. I am not any kind of tax fiddler, never have been in my life.
