I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.

I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.

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

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.

Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win.