Top 25 Mike Phelan Quotes

I’m quite open and proud enough to listen to anything really. Be it home, abroad, Premier League, Championships or below that. It’s not a worry. I’ve been in the game long enough so I know how to pitch myself in comfortably anywhere.

There is fierce competition within the city. If United are at loggerheads within the club, it just helps fuel City’s cause more than anything else.

Once you have had success there are always people focusing on why it happened. Inevitably, there is a lot of scrutiny when you don’t achieve the same again.

Strikers can’t score every week, much as they would like to.

Decision making is always top of the tree when it comes to the big football clubs and where it takes you.

The players have to understand how it feels to be fatigued and then go again.

I’m not saying I’ve become institutionalised at Manchester United but my qualities have been at Manchester United.

Jose Mourinho has experience of Premier League football and winning the title. He’s a European Cup-winning manager so he knows what it is all about.

Not many people become manager of Manchester United. Sir Alex had it for a long, long time, then a few have come along since to try to emulate him and make them the champions again.

Setting points targets is sometimes the worst thing you can do – it puts pressure on.

The target is to win football matches.

Players are human and when they get the opportunity to relieve the pressure, some deal with it in different ways.

There’s no shortage of investment into Manchester United.

There’s no excuses for over-drinking.

When you get to the semi-final of a cup you want to get to the final.

A club like Arsenal is a fabulous club, it is a well-run club.

You have to master the ball, play with confidence and play with character and courage.

Many fine coaches never become great managers.

It’s hard for an up and coming player who has the eyes of Manchester United on them to take that opportunity and then sort of not given the opportunity to break through because of the quality already there.

I would never disrespect anybody who phoned me up or got in contact. I don’t work like that.

It’s not for me to hold any grudges or anything like that.

Taking on a temporary coaching role at Manchester United is extremely exciting.

We have to be more courageous and braver and sometimes take a knock. You can’t just be a pretty boy, you have to get your body or something on it. When it is a one-on-one situation you have to carry out that duty.

Any manager of any big institution, which is what Manchester United is, internationally, you have a role and a responsibility to give out the correct messages.

I was offered the opportunity at the Mariners to pass on my experiences and wisdom in order to develop the football club back into the football club that it once was.