I have been accused of not taking seriously the FA Cup on Saturday ... I have won four times the FA Cup. Who has won it more? Give me one name.

Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

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.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.

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

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.