My biggest mentor is myself because I've had to study, so that's been my biggest influence.

The responsibility will always go with the manager - you put out the team.

Of course, as manager, the selection of the team is very much one of the biggest responsibilities I personally take, but I come to that decision thanks to advice and support of the people around me.

I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.

I think football management has obviously changed and evolved in terms of practices and methods, but I would say the values we strive to hold are the same as great men like Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley.

I'm never going to walk away because I'll always have belief that I can improve players and make things better.

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.