Football Matches Quotes by Martin O'Neill

I've missed out on a European Cup final because I was injured three weeks beforehand.

— Martin O'Neill

As a player, it took me a long time to get over defeats, and as a manager I get moody and irritable. My wife…

— Martin O'Neill

Roy Keane can talk eloquently about the game. I was hoping he would take the Sunderland job when he was last in the frame…

— Martin O'Neill

The rivalry between Celtic and Rangers is one of the major rivalries in world football let alone European football.

— Martin O'Neill

I have to tell you I can count on the fingers of one hand when I got verbally abused on the streets of Glasgow.

— Martin O'Neill

I don't think I have ever in my managerial time really given my valuation its proper consideration.

— Martin O'Neill

If Brian Clough, who had the ego the size of 15 houses, had the humility to go for an interview for the England job…

— Martin O'Neill

A manager's tenure at club level is very short and gets shorter as the time goes on.

— Martin O'Neill

My mother was an O'Kane from Swatragh in County Derry. My father had a Donegal background. I came into the world when they had…

— Martin O'Neill

It would make me laugh, make me smile, if some manager came in and said he had a five-year plan for a football club.…

— Martin O'Neill

I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.

— Martin O'Neill

My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're…

— Martin O'Neill

I would love to tell you I had the worst childhood you could ever imagine but believe it or not it was idyllic. I…

— Martin O'Neill

I think Ashley Young is world class, Id put him in a bracket with Lionel Messi and Ronaldo

— Martin O'Neill

My wife, who hated every place she'd been to in her life, absolutely loved it in Scotland.

— Martin O'Neill