Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

If you're scoring two goals at Stamford Bridge, it tells you that you are a player.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

To play as an anchor man you have to be extremely disciplined and a lot of the time you're attracted to the ball but can't go there because if you don't get there or it breaks down there is a hole.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

Kante senses dangers and knows where the ball is going to be. He has that in his DNA. Paul Pogba has more in his DNA to be up there, create.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

The stature of Liverpool means they want to win trophies.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

You can talk about systems until you're blue in the face but that's secondary - if you're closing down, if you're first to the ball, it doesn't really matter what system you've got.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

I can remember Bob Paisley was never happy.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

I first learned what a rivalry really was at White Hart Lane.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

Don't get me wrong, growing up in Edinburgh, I was all too familiar with the Hibs and Hearts rivalry. My father grew up in Leith - Hibee territory - just off of Easter Road on Albert Street.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

You never forget when you beat - or when you lose - to your city rival.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

I got the Liverpool job when I was 38.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

Liverpool will always be a very special place to me.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

I found that being top put all the pressure on second place, not first. The focus is on the second-place team, who can't afford to slip up again.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

When you're a player, you only really have to look after yourself. And then you go into management, and you've got 30 players' welfare to keep an eye on.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

You can Google how many goals a player has scored in the last few seasons, or against this particular side, but our job is to point the viewers to something that is happening in the game that they may not have seen or thought of.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

Anfield is a unique place to play on European nights.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

I don't think anybody is looking at Mario Balotelli and thinking 'I'm going to work as hard as him.'

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

When you play at home in European football, you've got to come up with a happy balance where you get on the front foot and try to win it without leaving yourself vulnerable.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

People always have game plans to take care of Ronaldo, but very few people succeed in keeping him quiet for 90 minutes.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

The crowd are more understanding at Anfield than at any other football ground.

Graeme Souness
Graeme Souness

You have to defend properly.