I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.

I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.

If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.