Alan Hansen

I hear people saying 'the way the game should be played'. Rubbish. That's the worst saying in football. You win the game, then worry about the way it should be played.

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.

If you're going to be wrong, be dramatically wrong.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.