Martin O'Neill Quotations

I don't know where the players get their determination and their courage to keep going and they deserve great credit.

I am leaving Celtic purely for personal reasons and I am extremely sorry to be departing in such circumstances.

I think the club have learned one or two wee lessons from this,

We're all disappointed and none more so than Chris himself but he'll have the problem looked at by experts on Friday so we'll maybe have some more news then.

There are a couple of difficult games coming up like away to Hearts.

It's exciting stuff at the moment. We're scoring goals but the way we're defending means we're needing three and four goals to win games,

It was a fantastic game and I thought the players were brilliant to come back from two goals behind,

I left football for personal reasons and these circumstances haven't changed one jot. I can't see them changing for the foreseeable future,

It has happened on more than one occasion now where the Rangers game gets dwarfed because of commitments elsewhere,

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

Neil Lennon wasn't sent off for scoring a goal, and that's what annoys me

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 18 I'll be dead.

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

Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere.

Whatever you say about Fergus McCann, if this [Celtic Park] is the legacy, then I am absolutely delighted with it.

I don't think I'll ever calm down. I'm afraid that's me. Honestly, I'll just take one massive big 'woof' and I shall be gone. Heart - gone!

Ken Bates is a football cretin.

Disaster is around the corner. It is, it's lurking, it's incredibly negative. Am I thinking about the bad times ahead? Jesus, no. I've got to remain positive, I'm going to fight this negativity!

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, she's wanted me out of the house for the past 27 years and has often asked me not to come back again. But I always show up, and really, she can't do without me, because I'm brilliant.

The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go get themselves checked out by about 15 psychiatrists.

The goals gave us confidence and the tempo was good, but in the second half we over indulged, started playing fancy flicks and our centre-half started trying back-heels which might please the fans, but I'm not sure about the manager.