Graeme Souness

Working with people on a field turns me on.

— Graeme Souness

I've never courted popularity.

— Graeme Souness

It's very hard to retain the Premier League.

— Graeme Souness

I don't really socialise in the football world.

— Graeme Souness

I got the Liverpool job when I was 38.

— Graeme Souness

Anfield is a unique place to play on European nights.

— Graeme Souness

Scottish football is full of hammer throwers.

— Graeme Souness

I won't be fining players for getting sent off.

— Graeme Souness

I go to anything at the cinema that gets the hype. I'm so easily seduced by it.

— Graeme Souness

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

— Graeme Souness

I think if you're raising your foot high whether it's an overhead kick or not, you're risking a red card.

— Graeme Souness

If players cannot see what's going on in a game and adapt then they are no good and they will not win…

— Graeme Souness

Liverpool are a very hard team to beat in front of their own crowd.

— Graeme Souness

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

— Graeme Souness

I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.

— Graeme Souness

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

— 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…

— Graeme Souness

I worked out long ago that I wasn't cut out for management. My personality doesn't lend itself to the job, especially what…

— Graeme Souness

There will be internal discipline, but I can envisage both of them playing for Newcastle again. They're top-class players and they don't…

— Graeme Souness

I've played at Anfield and you can look at The Kop and there are blue pockets all over. It's another level in…

— Graeme Souness

Football is the most entertaining game in the world to watch because it's end to end with lots of things happening.

— Graeme Souness

I think I speak for all the pundits when I say we are just giving an opinion. I am asked to give…

— 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…

— Graeme Souness

Today's top players only want to play in London or for Manchester United. That's what happened when I tried to sign Alan…

— Graeme Souness

What I miss about football is being in the dressing room. But do I miss three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon when…

— Graeme Souness

In 2017, Kante has been fantastic and is almost two players at times. He covers every blade of grass and he's not…

— Graeme Souness

There's managers out there now who would love to have won a single trophy. The fact is the vast majority of them…

— Graeme Souness

I came from a working class family. We lived in a prefab. We had nothing, but we had everything. I was out…

— Graeme Souness

For a lot of lads, they grow up going to matches with fathers or mates. Those Saturday or Sundays where you head…

— Graeme Souness

I've won something like 27 trophies in my lifetime. There are people out there who are very good players and yet they've…

— 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…

— Graeme Souness

I was sold by Middlesbrough to Liverpool for a record fee between two English clubs and then won European Cups at Anfield,…

— Graeme Souness

You have to defend properly.

— Graeme Souness

I worry for Scottish football.

— Graeme Souness

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

— Graeme Souness

I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.

— Graeme Souness

Both my parents were mild, gentle people.

— Graeme Souness

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

— Graeme Souness

All top players have an edge to them.

— Graeme Souness

Lionel Messi is the best player ever.

— Graeme Souness