I think we live in a very competitive world, and I love competition.

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 am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you...

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

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.

I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.