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.'

It's a strange atmosphere always over there, it is darker and less glamorous, and you don't feel as high. It is a different kind of test - can you raise your level in a less exciting environment and perhaps still a very difficult one?

I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

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

As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous.

Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.