When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will respond ‘I tried to win football matches.’ He will say: ‘Are you certain that’s all?’ But, well, that’s the story of my life.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.

Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him.