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

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

If you eat caviar every day it's difficult to return to sausages.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that you know you would not have brought out of yourself. He makes you discover something interesting in your life. If you are living like an animal, what is the point of living? What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.