A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

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.

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.