Martin O'Neill Football Quotations

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

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

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.

Ken Bates is a football cretin.

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

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