Brian McDermott quotes:

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

If you ask me why I've succeeded, it's because I was in the Royal Marines. You have this unbelievable sense of achievement and of overcoming adversity. That's the confidence it breeds.

I love music, from shanty sea-songs to Calvin Harris.

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used, but they'll remember how you made them feel.

I can't go against my nature because I am what I am. I don't try to be anyone different to who I am.

Football is all I know.

I don't regret anything.

I irritate the wife because of my private dancing.

I don't believe in an 'all-about-me' culture. It's about the group.

You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.

People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.