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.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

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...'

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

I know how important it is to have a helping hand.

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

You weren’t world-class when Arsenal signed you.