Messi is a Playstation.

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

If you want to win a horse race, you need your horse to be 100%.

When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to complement him rather than change him.

The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

It is one of my biggest regrets that Niall Quinn was not here during my time... I felt he was an intelligent player. It would have been a good combination with Thierry Henry. What I like with Quinn is if you look at the player who played next to him, he always scored 40 goals because he had a hand for his head and he just put the ball where you were. He was a team player. A top-class player makes other players look good and he had that player.

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.