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.

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?

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

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

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

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