“When I got the sack from Huddersfield it hurt me badly. I became reclu...” — Steve Bruce Quote

“When I got the sack from Huddersfield it hurt me badly. I became reclusive, I never went to a match, don't think I left the house for five months.”

“Coming to manage Newcastle was never going to be easy. But there was never a side to me that thought, 'Oh no, I do not want that.'”

“If you manage Newcastle, you have to deal with the consequences.”

“When you get sacked, everybody thinks: 'He's a football manager, he'll get lots of money,' but you still get sacked, which for me is a slur on you, it degrades you.”

“I had 235 games for Gillingham in the old Third Division. Everybody associates me with Man United and winning things but I had seven years at Gillingham and 3 at Norwich. One of those years we got relegated. Until I was 30, 31, I hadn't really won anything.”

“One of the most enjoyable parts of the job is seeing a young fella who you give a debut to or you buy and see them progress.”

“I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.”

“I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.”

“Like any organizer worth their salt, I'm open to critique, but I won't be bullied or treated badly. I'm an imperfect human, and as such, I have a proclivity to make mistakes. And while I make mistakes, I am not my mistakes.”

“Some fighters had blinding speed and reflexes in their heyday but faded badly with age.”

“Foreign interventions always end badly.”

“When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.”