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Ally McCoist is a Scottish former professional footballer and football manager. He is best known for his time as a player for Rangers FC, where he achieved numerous successes and became one of the club's all-time leading goal scorers. McCoist's contributions to Scottish football have earned him a legendary status.

The only picture I've got in my house - other than family photos, of course - is one of me with Muhammad Ali.

Tommy Burns was a brilliant human being. One of the biggest compliments ever paid to me was that I was to Celtic supporters what Tommy was to Rangers supporters. You're not universally loved, far from it, but you are accepted.

During my time on 'Question of Sport', we had a lot of boxing greats - such as George Foreman, Marvin Hagler and Joe Calzaghe.

I was as staunch a Rangers supporter as any wee boy could be without being bigoted. We did a lot of stupid things. We sang the songs, but with no real feeling, and didn't have a clue what we were singing about.

But if you are not going to a football club where your board will 100 per cent support you and help you then you have no chance. Or very little chance.

Pressure does strange things to people. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have swapped anything. In many ways when the club was going through that period I was probably quite happy it was me, because I knew Rangers as well as anybody could have at that particular time.

I've got mates who don't enjoy their work, but I w... -Ally McCoist

I've got mates who don't enjoy their work, but I would be sitting here talking about sport anyway.

I am not a pious character who never makes mistake... -Ally McCoist

I am not a pious character who never makes mistakes.

Losing a goal in the last minute? Important, of course it is, but not really in the grand scheme of things.

One of the reasons Old Firm supporters could relate to me was I was one of them, playing for the team I wanted to play for. If we scored at Celtic Park, the only people I wanted to celebrate in front of was Rangers supporters.

I am the Rangers manager who ended up in a witness stand in the high court, thinking: 'Is this what it's come to?' There were people involved at our football club who had no right to be there and should never have been near the place.

I always looked across the tunnel in Old Firm games and fancied our chances but there's a big difference between that and knowing you're going to win. There's so many things can happen in an Old Firm game.

No one will ever convince me that I wasn't the bes... -Ally McCoist

No one will ever convince me that I wasn't the best man for a goal if we needed one.

I really enjoy what I'm doing, I really enjoy my weekends watching football. I watch the kids play football and the Saturday before last I was at four games. Then I ended up watching La Liga on telly. On the Sunday I'm the same and I really enjoy it.

Celtic had some really good players. Paul McStay i... -Ally McCoist

Celtic had some really good players. Paul McStay is one of the best I've ever played against.

I would never say I was one of the top players in the world, but I always felt on top of the world, that I would score every time I played.

I could go fishing with Paul Gascoigne, I could go for a pint and a game of doms with Ian Durrant. There's no way I would play now rather than the era I played in. We had a life.

I could sit here and tell you about Walter Smith until the cows come home, about how good a manager, how good a coach and a football man he was.

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