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.

The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

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?

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

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