Lee Cattermole Quotes

The sack is a sad fact of life for football managers. I have been axed three times. The chairman at Notts County was on record as saying it's the worst thing they ever did. Within a couple of years they were one game from losing league status.

If my results are not good I will lose my job.

When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.

The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.

Basically, I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well, it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after 'Deadly Blessing' and 'Swamp Thing,' that's what happened.

I've lost two jobs, at Newcastle and Norwich, but that's the nature of the game these days. It doesn't remove winning the Championship with Newcastle from my record, nor finishing 11th in my first season at Norwich after we went on an incredible run before Christmas.

When it goes bad, you know supporters will be angry at players who were bought for most money.

The disappointment of getting relegated from the Premier League is an awful time for anybody as a footballer.

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club.

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

Every movie I touched bombed.

I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude.

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

Unfortunately, in our business, it's all about the tournament when you're a good team.

United need to be in the Champions League.

Once I came out of the First Division with Norwich, it was great.

Everybody who's been fired has heard before about the problems they have. They just don't know it's that serious. Once you know what the stakes are, you become more serious.

I've been in teams that have struggled and been relegated.

Al Davis fires everybody.

I was probably scarred by getting the sack at Middlesbrough.

I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.

There will come a day when someone calls to tell me my column's been binned, and that will be a really hard day, and I've already got it set up so that they'll ring someone else first - because I don't want to be given that news when I'm walking down the street, because it will be really heartbreaking.