Quotes by Gordon Strachan

“Im just going to crumble like a wreck. Ill go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.”

“Ive got more important things to think about. Ive got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.”

“We have to watch what we do in the first 10 or 15 minutes because we dont want to end the tie, or make it even more impossible than it is, by losing a goal right away,”

“The biggest disappointment for me is that I will have to wait until next year until we have nights like this again,”

“It would be good for everybody, although we would have to make sure the rest of the Scottish league would be safe and prosper,”

“I lived in England for 21 years and I know that everybody, apart from some of the teams that think they might get relegated, would love Celtic and Rangers to be in the English League. I think it will happen eventually.”

“The players gave me exactly what I expected of them, both the guys who have been here doing it for the last five years and the newer ones who stood shoulder to shoulder with them and didnt let them down. The vision I have for Celtic must include the heart and character they showed tonight but we also have to play better and get fitter.”

“We went over the goals again with the players this morning,”

“The manner in which we lost the goals is a concern,”

“It wasnt an easy decision to leave out Bobo, because I could have done that with two or three from the back four. But theres a limit to the players you have and the changes you can make. The reality is were not defending well enough. But we just have to plug on. Theres no magic formula.”

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.