If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'Thank you very much, can I turn the other cheek'. Only Jesus Christ did that.

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

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

I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to complement him rather than change him.