"I don't get mad. I get even."

- Hoddle on learning that Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman had withdrawn from the England squad on the eve of Le Tournoi in 1997.

"When Hoddle was asked how the healing process worked, he smiled benignly.

`You are asking the wrong person,' he said, looking up at the ceiling. `You should be asking someone up there.' "

- Report in the Times after Hoddle confirmed that faith healer Eileen Drewery was part of the England back room team.

"If you ridicule it, then you haven't got an open mind. She saved two of my players' careers when I was in charge at Swindon."

- Hoddle defends Drewery.

"He's been doing it for six or seven years. If I stop him for three weeks, his body will probably have an adverse affect."

- Hoddle on revelations about Paul Gascoigne's smoking habit during the build-up to the World Cup.

"An England player emerged from Eileen Drewery's living room anxiously shaking his head.

`She says I've got a worried soul,' he told the queue of international players outside.

`Well, have you?' they asked.

`I bloody well have now.' "

- Report in the Times.

"I don't have a broomstick. I'm nothing special. I'm just a grandmother to the players."

- Eileen Drewery speaking last June.

"You have to try to be yourself. Jesus is the best example we have. He was one of the strongest people ever. A good role model for anyone."

- Hoddle gives credit where credit is due.

"We had two or three minutes of chat and there were some tears in his eyes." - Hoddle on telling Gascoigne he wouldn't be going to the World Cup.

"I suggested a blue but he was adamant he wanted beige and we worked around that."

- Designer Paul Smith explains how Hoddle and he decided on image for the World Cup squad.

"I never said and never intended anyone to believe that I had thought the police had deliberately allowed trouble to develop in Marseilles."

- Hoddle bemoans another misconstrual of his words at the World Cup.

"The sending-off cost us dearly. I can't deny that it cost us the game."

- Hoddle on David Beckham's infamous sending-off in the World Cup, just in case the blond one wasn't feeling isolated enough as it was.

"Some sportsmen secretly beat their wives. Some are quietly racist. Others are drunken, drug addicted, homophobic or, in one or two cases, fascists. Mr Hoddle appears to be none of those things: he's just plain stupid."

- Editorial in the Guardian yesterday.