I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

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?

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.

For a while, you could decide when you loan the player out whether he plays against you or not, and I always decided that he could play against us. But I must say I didn't get any protection from the media because when the player I loaned out scored against us, it's 'aaahhh, look at him, stupid...'

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

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.