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.

Graeme Souness

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

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.

Graeme Souness

Money Great Anger

You don't get a manager's job at a big club unless it is in a mess.

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Age You Unless

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.

Graeme Souness

Time You Would

I joined Liverpool in 1978. I was the record signing between English clubs.

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T Signing Sign

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.

Graeme Souness

Work Time Men

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

Graeme Souness

Work Life Works

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.

Graeme Souness

Work Family Working

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.

Graeme Souness

Men Age Yourself

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

Graeme Souness

Why Use Us

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.

Graeme Souness

Famous Us Up

When you go into the really big games you look at your team and think 'where are we weak, where are we vulnerable.'

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Your You Where

It's the one that the players fear. The No 1 is the ACL - the anterior cruciate ligament - closely followed by a real tear of the hamstring, because you know that's the one injury that kids you.

Graeme Souness

Men Fear You

I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.

Graeme Souness

Good Would Well

Man Utd have always been the glamour team, always been the team that attracted attention even when they were not winning things.

Graeme Souness

Winning Win Were

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.

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Success Tin T

If you're scoring two goals at Stamford Bridge, it tells you that you are a player.

Graeme Souness

You Two Tells

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.

Graeme Souness

Car You Word

Historically, Jose Mourinho is not a manager who chops and changes his team and he's not big on rotation.

Graeme Souness

Change Age Who

Benteke is a threat when he's fit, fully motivated and firing on all cylinders.

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Threat Ted T

Football clubs can be quite homophobic, both in the dressing room and in the stands. I want to show I'm an ally.

Graeme Souness

The one thing I learnt going to Italy was there's no real change in how the game should be played, but how players look after themselves.

Graeme Souness

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.

Graeme Souness

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.

Graeme Souness

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.

Graeme Souness

If you win the Premier League it means you have managed the difficult moments of the season better than anyone else.

Graeme Souness

You know, there has never been a watershed moment with a coach when I've gone, 'Wow, I learned something today.'

Graeme Souness

Liverpool will always be the place I look back in terms of the place where I enjoyed playing, it was just unique.

Graeme Souness

If you're going to be champions you've got to deal with the challenges that come along in many different ways.

Graeme Souness

In my youth fashion was about moustaches and curly hair.

Graeme Souness

If you start spending big money, what you're ultimately judged on is how your buys perform.

Graeme Souness

I think I speak for all the pundits when I say we are just giving an opinion. I am asked to give an opinion based on my experiences in football and based on what I see out on the pitch.

Graeme Souness

The strikers are the ones that normally go for big, big money because they're the ones who decide the games, nine times out of 10.

Graeme Souness

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.

Graeme Souness

It's very difficult, when you're in and out of the team as a player, to get any sort of rhythm.

Graeme Souness

To play as an anchor man you have to be extremely disciplined and a lot of the time you're attracted to the ball but can't go there because if you don't get there or it breaks down there is a hole.

Graeme Souness

Kante senses dangers and knows where the ball is going to be. He has that in his DNA. Paul Pogba has more in his DNA to be up there, create.

Graeme Souness

The stature of Liverpool means they want to win trophies.

Graeme Souness

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.

Graeme Souness

I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.

Graeme Souness

I first learned what a rivalry really was at White Hart Lane.

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.

Graeme Souness

You never forget when you beat - or when you lose - to your city rival.

Graeme Souness

I got the Liverpool job when I was 38.

Graeme Souness

Liverpool will always be a very special place to me.

Graeme Souness

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.

Graeme Souness

You can Google how many goals a player has scored in the last few seasons, or against this particular side, but our job is to point the viewers to something that is happening in the game that they may not have seen or thought of.

Graeme Souness

Anfield is a unique place to play on European nights.

Graeme Souness

I don't think anybody is looking at Mario Balotelli and thinking 'I'm going to work as hard as him.'

Graeme Souness

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.

Graeme Souness