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.

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

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.'

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

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

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.