Alex McLeish Quotes (105 Quotes)

Players like Maloney and Beattie, who've been on the fringe, will see an opportunity for themselves at Celtic now,

I'm delighted we have signed Julien. He has a wealth of experience which is something we need to aid the aspirations of the club. He will undoubtedly strengthen the squad. The French market is very well known to me and I have followed the player for a period of time.

There is more pressure on us because Hearts have the points advantage and we travel to their ground,

It is up to ourselves and we can only blame ourselves if we don't finish second. We have to make Hearts earn it.

I'm really proud of the young team that won today.

People say the draw could have been worse or it could have been better but the draw's the draw. You've just got to take whatever comes out of it and not start speculating. Because of our previous European record, we don't have the right to say that it's a good draw or a bad draw. We've just to keep our heads down.

He had a tough time with injuries and I have not had nearly long enough to look at him.

They took their chances in the second half and we didn't take our chances in the first. I'm not here to talk about the referee - they make honest mistakes like everybody else but it looked like a goal from where we were.

Oh, that was crucial, ... Hearts have had a terrific start and full credit to them. It will be a huge battle next week. We had hoped today to continue the good work from the Porto match, but maybe the legs weren't quite there to see the same tactics through again. It's been a tough week.

He's most definitely happy and can't wait to play in the first team in front of the fans,

We lost a couple of sloppy goals, which we can improve on, but many aspects of our play were much better than the game at Inverness.

I hope it doesn't spread any further or we have real problems.

I expect a match in which we won't have the ball too much. Villarreal will attack from the start but our discipline is good and we have some dangerous players as we've shown by getting to this stage of the competition.

Our efforts were fantastic. We can play better, but the spirit, determination and passion were there... We're still alive.

We know that the politically correct party are trying to clean up everything in the world and, as I said last week, we have achieved some things and I am sure we can make progress as well.

Everyone is delighted for Marvin. He knows at this club it's every single week that the demands are on you to perform - and he's stood up to that.

Hopefully we can exploit any chink at all and our players will raise their game as they have done in this competition and the Rangers crowd are like the proverbial extra man for us.

To his credit Peter is so sharp to the ball that he doesn't give the defenders a minute to react.

Except one. I do sometimes now wish I had stuck it out with Rangers a bit longer when you consider what happened, ... But I am playing at a good standard and believe I can push on into the Premiership, which is what I want.

Over the last couple of years we have made contact with the top agents in the Czech Republic, for example,

The lads have shown tremendous spirit despite our problems this season. We played a very good side. At half-time I thought we might go out and lose our discipline and get picked off.

Kris is a young player with great potential and we have been monitoring his progress over the last couple of years.

That match was really the birth of the real European Aberdeen team, against a high quality Ipswich side,

It has put us in a strong position and it's a very good start. It sets us up well but we still have hard work ahead of us.

We are in exactly the same situation as we were last season albeit the prize is not the championship this time around.

The club is in a state of shock. He was an inspiration to everyone here during four outstanding years, the highlight of which was his performance in the 1991 Scottish Cup final.

My answer is to fight, fight, fight until we pull through, ... We have done it before and I'm confident we will do so again.

When you score a couple of goals, it doesn't do you any harm,

We would love to say we will score five or six goals every week, but we don't want to be disrespectful to other clubs.

We have been looking at other countries - Bulgaria and Hungary, for example - but we have to make sure that these players are able to come to a club like Rangers, where the expectations are so high, and hit the ground running. It is easier for players to go to places like Hearts, for example, where the expectations and pressures are not so great.

We needed some composure on the ball in the midfield and that's something we'll have to improve on.

I am quite disappointed at scoring two goals away from home, playing as well as we did, and not winning,

We are fortunate to have two terrific goalkeepers and competition for a specialist position,

Ronald held his hand up for the first one, which left the door open for Livi,

The fact is they are all big games whoever you play at this club,

Now, they have prospects. They can see a clear way out of this group. What you want is, in five years' time, not to have any regrets about opportunities you missed, ... You want to look back and say I gave everything in these games. I played to my maximum. See if they do that And I get the best out of them I won't complain about a thing. It doesn't guarantee you success but you'd have a good chance then.

We played well on a horrendous surface and my only criticism is that we didn't score as many as we should have done. He had it manipulated last week and it was painful, but I hope that talk of an operation is premature.

And we will make our minds up nearer kick off.

I was very pleased for Dado because he is still searching for peak fitness after his injury, and he enjoyed those two strikes. No matter what age a striker is, they always thrive on scoring goals and today's performance will do his confidence no harm.

I told them he's not for sale. I think there would be an opportunity for him to stay here and talks will be ongoing.

Three points would have given us a greater chance to progress, but we still have a great opportunity.

Kris got a hat trick, but he might have had six or seven. It was amazing the amount of chances he had. He sets such a high standard that we were cursing him when he missed a couple today, but I felt he had a good all-around game and again proved his elusive in the box.

It is still in Hearts' hands. They need to lose games in order for us to land the second spot, but we know that we have applied a wee bit of pressure.

I'm grateful for the opportunity to try to turn things around,

Barry is struggling with a bad ankle injury and that will be a huge blow for us,

I t is look in the mirror time for everyone at Rangers,

We are only looking at the team above of us and once we get past them, we can focus on the next team.

He did it with us at Aberdeen a long time before that. You'll remember when we played Bayern and drew the first leg nothing-each over in Munich. He told us that, whatever happened in the return, we had to score. If the Germans got a goal, that didn't change anything. Well, you know what happened that night, don't you

When we heard the Rangers fans erupt, we knew it was within our grasp. I got the most dramatic shiver through my entire body when I heard the Rangers fans.

We have some tired legs after international games and the Champions League and have to try to get some players games,