When an Italian tells me it's pasta on the plate, I check under the sauce to make sure.

It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him.

The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.

As long as there are games to play its not over

I tell the players that the bus is moving. This club has to progress. And the bus wouldn't wait for them. I tell them to get on board.

Jose [Mourinho] was one of those guys on a surfboard who can stay longer on the wave than anyone else.

Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.