I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.

Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people.

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

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.

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

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

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.