Gordon Strachan

“It's like a big dog chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.”

“He's 6ft 5in, and good in the air. So he's either a good basketball player or a bad footballer.”

“What I have in my fridge is a bottle of milk, a lemon, a knob of butter and a half-eaten tube of Pringles. That is it.”

“I have the same problem as a lot of managers. We are not saints, we are not priests.”

“I've got a wee patch of grey hair but that's because my dad had it. I'm not telling you that I'm not under pressure, but I'm not going to go grey because of the pressure.”

“If you had an ugly baby, you would still love it. And this was my ugly baby.”

“It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're playing for Rochdale and at 18 you're playing for Scotland.”

“I tried to get the ball down and play, but it was like playing in a phone box.”

“We are talking about a squad of players. I want to have a team. It's a big difference.”

“You can't buy team spirit. I've said it a million times.”

“I don't think I'm a funny man. I just think that I'm honest, and sometimes honesty is funny.”

“It's simple, you're either a team player or you're not. There's no in-between.”

“There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots.”