Graeme Souness
Don't get me wrong, growing up in Edinburgh, I was all too familiar with the Hibs and Hearts rivalry. My father grew up in Leith - Hibee territory - just off of Easter Road on Albert Street.Collection: Easter
You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.
No one's career is full of highs. Somewhere down the line you are going to get kicked where it hurts and it's how you deal with that.
If you came to my house you would not think an ex-footballer lived there. I've got nothing on the walls or the shelves from my time in the game.
We need to take good care of football's image.
We've got to keep the cost of watching football down. If that means players getting the same money for a few years rather than a 25 per cent increase every time, that's fine.
I worked out long ago that I wasn't cut out for management. My personality doesn't lend itself to the job, especially what it's become. By the time I stopped, the good times weren't compensating for the bad.
If players cannot see what's going on in a game and adapt then they are no good and they will not win anything.
You get a sense when you're a player of where the game's going and you work your way around that.
I get a real buzz going into a stadium, a full house, the anticipation of how the game is going to pan out.
I get frustrated with certain aspects of the game. But there's things that delight me, it's just the uncertainty of it all.
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 know, there has never been a watershed moment with a coach when I've gone, 'Wow, I learned something today.'
I don't really socialise in the football world.
I joined Liverpool in 1978. I was the record signing between English clubs.
I've never courted popularity.
All top players have an edge to them.
Football clubs can be quite homophobic, both in the dressing room and in the stands. I want to show I'm an ally.
The world is changing, football should definitely too.
I was always - and I have no idea where it came from - a confident boy. And when I look at how I've lived my life that's how I've lived it.
As you get older, I suppose, you get a bit more cautious in everything you do. But I've always been blessed with self-belief.
I worry for Scottish football.
There's managers out there now who would love to have won a single trophy. The fact is the vast majority of them haven't. So I'm quite cool about what I did as a player and as a manager. Could I have done better, or differently? Of course. But that's all water that has flowed under the bridge; it doesn't cause me any sleepless nights.
I've won something like 27 trophies in my lifetime. There are people out there who are very good players and yet they've won nothing. I won 10 trophies in three different countries as a manager: I've got nothing to prove. I've done it.
What I miss about football is being in the dressing room. But do I miss three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon when matters are totally out of your hands? No, I don't. Do I miss placing my destiny in the hands of others? No, I don't. I loved it as a player. I liked it as a manager. But that's all come and gone.
I can earn a great deal more money by playing football outside Scotland than I could in Scotland, but I'd still like to be player-manager of Rangers one day.
If you are making mistakes at centre-back then inevitably that results in an effort on your goal and your goalkeeper has to make a save.
Historically, Jose Mourinho is not a manager who chops and changes his team and he's not big on rotation.
I go to anything at the cinema that gets the hype. I'm so easily seduced by it.
I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.
When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out of the seat.
When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.
A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.
Mark Viduka, Nicolas Anelka and Michael Owen are all top strikers and the facts speak for themselves.
The Scottish people and the people of the north-east are very similar - they love their football.
In 2017, Kante has been fantastic and is almost two players at times. He covers every blade of grass and he's not short of technique. He would get in any team because there's room for that type of player no matter what system you play or level you play at.
It's very easy for people to overlook how important a good goalkeeper is in a team.
I'm a great believer that you cannot have enough senior pros around your dressing room.
Continuity is what makes success, but it is all about getting over the humps on the road to that; that's what football is all about.
Man Utd have always been the glamour team, always been the team that attracted attention even when they were not winning things.
United have always been a big scalp to take, no matter where they are in the league.
You can't win any trophies unless you've got a top goalkeeper.
I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.
I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.
For a lot of lads, they grow up going to matches with fathers or mates. Those Saturday or Sundays where you head over to the stadium probably with a scarf on - knowing every word, every clap and every pause to the supporters' chants.
In my youth fashion was about moustaches and curly hair.
Whatever happens will happen, that's the rollercoaster of life. What matters is how you handle the slumps.
When you play at home in European football, you've got to come up with a happy balance where you get on the front foot and try to win it without leaving yourself vulnerable.
You can talk about systems until you're blue in the face but that's secondary - if you're closing down, if you're first to the ball, it doesn't really matter what system you've got.
If you insist on playing Jorginho, who is neat and tidy but not a goal threat, you have to have goal threats on either side of him.