Ally McCoist Quotes

During my time on ‘Question of Sport’, we had a lot of boxing greats – such as George Foreman, Marvin Hagler and Joe Calzaghe.

I really enjoy what I’m doing, I really enjoy my weekends watching football. I watch the kids play football and the Saturday before last I was at four games. Then I ended up watching La Liga on telly. On the Sunday I’m the same and I really enjoy it.

Celtic had some really good players. Paul McStay is one of the best I’ve ever played against.

One of the reasons Old Firm supporters could relate to me was I was one of them, playing for the team I wanted to play for. If we scored at Celtic Park, the only people I wanted to celebrate in front of was Rangers supporters.

I’ll play for Rangers as long as I can, then spend the rest of my life being depressed

I always looked across the tunnel in Old Firm games and fancied our chances but there’s a big difference between that and knowing you’re going to win. There’s so many things can happen in an Old Firm game.

But if you are not going to a football club where your board will 100 per cent support you and help you then you have no chance. Or very little chance.

I’ve got mates who don’t enjoy their work, but I would be sitting here talking about sport anyway.

Tommy Burns was a brilliant human being. One of the biggest compliments ever paid to me was that I was to Celtic supporters what Tommy was to Rangers supporters. You’re not universally loved, far from it, but you are accepted.

I could sit here and tell you about Walter Smith until the cows come home, about how good a manager, how good a coach and a football man he was.

I could go fishing with Paul Gascoigne, I could go for a pint and a game of doms with Ian Durrant. There’s no way I would play now rather than the era I played in. We had a life.

No one will ever convince me that I wasn’t the best man for a goal if we needed one.

One thing about Germany – they’ll be organised, they’ll be big and they’ll be strong.

I am the Rangers manager who ended up in a witness stand in the high court, thinking: ‘Is this what it’s come to?’ There were people involved at our football club who had no right to be there and should never have been near the place.

The only picture I’ve got in my house – other than family photos, of course – is one of me with Muhammad Ali.

I would never say I was one of the top players in the world, but I always felt on top of the world, that I would score every time I played.

I am not a pious character who never makes mistakes.

When Celtic faced closure in 1994. My feelings then were of disbelief and concern for my mates who were Celtic fans.