I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists.

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

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.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'