237 Quotes by Graeme Souness

There will be internal discipline, but I can envisage both of them playing for Newcastle again. They’re top-class players and they don’t come along very often.

I won’t be fining players for getting sent off.

I came from a working class family. We lived in a prefab. We had nothing, but we had everything. I was out of the house at 12 to live with my grandmother, who was on her own, and I was expected to be the man about the house. At 15, I was living in digs in London after signing for Tottenham.

When you're a player, you only really have to look after yourself. And then you go into management, and you've got 30 players' welfare to keep an eye on.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

The world's best when I was growing up was Pele and he would have been a great player now, too, but Messi surpasses him.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

You can't win any trophies unless you've got a top goalkeeper.

You've always got 20 per cent of a dressing room that won't be happy with their manager because they want to play more often. There are players who will have been moaning all year about not being in the team, but when they got their chance they failed to take it.