I wouldn't be in football if I was nervous. You have to look forward to games.
— Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
When you get disappointments, you bounce back.
If you want to stay at Manchester United and win trophies and be successful, then you have to work through the reserve games, and that is what I am doing.
Norway is a small environment. There are only three to four agents to deal with, just 15 other clubs, and that's it!
I had a fantastic time at United. I have been back to watch games. It was over 14 years of my life. It is a third of my life I spent at Old Trafford. That's a lot of time, and it feels like home.
Everybody wants the Hollywood glamour of the Premier League.
It's not about tippy-tappy, namby-pamby football. It's a battle, and we have to be ready for it.
If you lose, you are out; if you win, you are the flavour of the month.
I am a realistic person.
I'm the manager of Cardiff City Football Club, and I'm not to lay down and feel sorry for myself.
In any game, you have to work to stay in it, especially away against a good team like Southampton. It's a fantastic club and one I've said on a few occasions Cardiff City would do well to emulate, both on and off the field.
I think the Swansea-Cardiff rivalry is good.
I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.
Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.
Throughout my life, ever since I played for Clausenengen back home, instead of listening to the teacher at school, I was writing down all the chances I missed in a book thinking 'I should have done this.' Scoring goals was all I thought about.
I thought I could go into Cardiff, but different clubs have different cultures, different playing styles and philosophies. I'm more suited to the other jobs I've had.
The FA Cup final is such a fantastic final to play in. I played in the 1999 one at Wembley, and after having watched so many finals as a kid, to be able to make that long walk up from the dressing room to the pitch was fantastic.
You cannot outperform your ego.
Manchester United have always stood up again and bounced back; it's just in the DNA.
If I had been at any other club but United, then I think I would have gone to the manager and asked to leave. But I want to stay here and win things.
I had three years of success with Molde, winning the League twice and the Cup. I thought I was fully prepared, that I was ready for the Premier League. But it's a completely different world there. Everything is much bigger.
I will show emotion with my players and fans when we do well. I am a professional man, and that is what I have to do.
You can never be sure what is around the corner.
The only way I know to get out of disappointment is to work hard, keep doing the right things, and don't make any rash decisions.
I have always been a dad who is there because, in football, you have time.
Clubs don't change managers unless there is something wrong.
In games, you have plans, you have strategies, and you follow them.
It's important players focus on what they have to do, while the fans keep believing and stay behind us.
When you are in a football club, you stick together. That's the key.
I was a boring man but a reflective man.
Finishing is different to shooting. If you work at in in training sessions then you will just do it naturally during the game.
I realised when I was a striker that when I ended up wide on the left or right, it can be so much easier to get space and face defenders up.
Molde fits me very well; Man United fits me very well because it's in me. It's in your personality. It's ingrained in you. I understand the club.
It's not my job to rate myself and judge myself. That's up to someone else.
You want all the money inside football. We do not have a bottomless pit of money. There are constraints. That's why some deals I have said no to because of the finances of them.
It's always this thing about being the big brother and the little brother coming to try to overtake the big brother. That always happens in families and in clubs - the young player hoping to take the old player's position - and City are hoping to overtake United. I don't think they'll ever be able to, though.
I said no to Aston Villa because I was not ready. I said yes to Cardiff because I felt ready. But I was not.
I was always the 'boring' type. I was into the stats and spending hours and hours and hours studying them. I was always more a manager than a player.
I am not an emotional person, really.
I work to plan long-term and try to earn results short-term.
When you turn round games, that's the best feeling you have in games.
I am not a city guy; I like peaceful surroundings and maybe a walk around a lake.
That's the most important thing in football: you need to take chances when you get them.
When I was a player, it was important to target the first few friendlies and plant a seed in the mind of the gaffer.
When you are a professional, you go into the next game wanting to win.
Every single player needs that eye-to-eye connection, I'm sure. They want to know what is expected of them, but it's not just me telling them what to do. It's about asking, 'What are your strengths? What do you feel? What can you give to the team?'
I'm very confident in my own ability as a manager.
The one way of getting better is by practising - both on and off the pitch.
I understand there are so many managers who would love to be manager of Manchester United, and I am one of them.
Whatever competition you're in, you want to win.
