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 believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that you know you would not have brought out of yourself. He makes you discover something interesting in your life. If you are living like an animal, what is the point of living? What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.