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.

If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.

A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.

I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

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.

I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you...

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