What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.

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

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.

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

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.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.