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.

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

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

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

The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.

I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.

I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.