You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

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...'

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

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

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.

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

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