I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

Only true champions come out and show their worth after defeat- and I expect us to do that.

Never give in or give up easily on a cause.

I bet him he wouldn't get 15 league goals and I'm going to have to change my bet with him. If he gets to 15 I can change it and I am allowed to do that because I'm the manager. I'm going to make it 150 now!

I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

You can't do anything about them.

David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practises with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.