“If you want to go on a coaching course to become a manager then give y...” — David James Quote

If you want to go on a coaching course to become a manager then give yourself a chance. If you don't want to go, an moan about not getting jobs, well, probably because you haven't been on the course is the reason why you haven't got a job.

You ask any seasoned pro - off the record - what their favourite boots are and most of them will name that 1970s design classic, the Copa Mundial.

For me to get emotional, means I care.

Managers should not be immune to the sack, they are spending the money of supporters and shareholders, if your manager is making fundamentally bad decisions, then the club has to be there to step in and take action. Leave it too long and you could end up relegated. It's enough to make anyone jittery.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

When I started the label, I stopped racing. Even though I have a better chance of getting hurt walking outside and falling down the stairs, if I had gotten injured on the racetrack, people would be going, 'What is this guy doing?' So I had to grow up a little bit.

Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'