Quotes from Sam Allardyce

I have always said that managers stay in a job when they win football matches.

Ambition is important for any manager or coach, owner or director.

Football today means players stay less now than ever before and you have to accept that. As a manager, a big part of your business is doing far too much business that you don't want to do really.

It's great having the best league in the world, no doubt about that, but the downside of that is the national team will suffer.

My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.

If a player digests his own statistical information in his own time, on his own laptop, tablet or whatever, without a coach standing over him, it makes it easier for him. It helps with the pressure. There's a fear factor but spending time at home analysing things can help control it.

People too often - because it's an easy, lazy tag - dwell on my style of football.

My model is much deeper than looking after players. My model is understanding the industry, working within it.

What is entertainment? Entertainment is the master of defence in Europe - Simeone.

There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can't be measured, doesn't exist. Bollocks. It does exist.

Finishing in the top four for Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Man United was easier before, but now it's getting much more difficult with the emergence of teams like Manchester City.

Expectation builds the one thing you must have when you get to a new stadium when it's built, which is a winning team.