Top 22 Steve Clarke Quotes

It remains an ambiton of mine to get to a major finals with Scotland.

With a club team you do get to work with them day in, day out, for weeks.

I feel unfulfilled in England. I think I’m a decent manager and a very good coach. I’ve still got a lot to offer some club who will maybe take a chance on me.

I don’t shout from the rooftops or blow my own trumpet. But I take a lot of satisfaction from the players and staff at clubs who recognise what I’ve done.

I feel I did a good job at West Brom. It was cut short abruptly, which is something historically that West Brom have done – as you’ve recently seen with Darren Moore.

I will miss the day to day stuff because I love coaching. I love being out on the pitch.

Everyone talks about VAR, which is great. It will help the referees no end. But if you’ve got VAR in place and VAR becomes the ref, I’m not sure that’s good for the game.

I was happy working on my golf and doing a bit of fishing.

My father was my No.1 influence, long before him actually being involved with my youth team.

In football you tend to drift away and on to the next job; you bump into someone after two or three years and it’s the same as seeing them yesterday.

I was no different to any other kid of my generation. I played with my mates in the park every day, every spare minute I could.

It’s important not to get hung up on the notion that everyone who has an injury is trying to dodge it.

If people are coming in in dribs and drabs, it doesn’t look good. You have to have standards and have rules to adhere to. If you have that then it carries on into the training.

I want to make the Tartan Army happy and qualify for a major tournament. That’s the goal.

It should be the pinnacle of any players’ career to get to a World Cup Finals with their country.

At the end of the day, you want a straightforward, simple system which everyone understands. If you can get clarity and simplicity in any process, it’s better for everybody.

It is my job to work with the players we have and try to improve them as a team and move the country forward.

The thing is, if nobody points out what’s wrong, then nothing will ever be done about it.

I think I worked out in my head it’s something like 75 training sessions before you’ve got them pretty well drilled. You’re not going to get that in international football so you’re relying on their intelligence and the ability of the players to slot in.

At Kilmarnock we are all inclusive, there are no divides.

I won‘t be chasing down players who have retired. I only want players who are 100% committed to Scotland.

At times, you have to maybe speak out of turn or say a little bit too much which upsets a few people.