Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

It's like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn't come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous.

Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

I think we live in a very competitive world, and I love competition.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.