Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

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.

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

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

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.

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