I've not had to ask permission from Geraldine to take the job. I'm one of the few men in this life who are not under the thumb. I'm stronger than that. Did she want me out of the house? Listen,… — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
I've missed out on a European Cup final because I was injured three weeks beforehand. — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The rivalry between Celtic and Rangers is one of the major rivalries in world football let alone European football. — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think I have ever in my managerial time really given my valuation its proper consideration. — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A manager's tenure at club level is very short and gets shorter as the time goes on. — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think Ashley Young is world class, Id put him in a bracket with Lionel Messi and Ronaldo — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
My wife, who hated every place she'd been to in her life, absolutely loved it in Scotland. — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
