I felt sorry for the match ball - it came off the pitch crying.

Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

If my forward arrives in a one vs one situation, I always say: 'let him work it out.' Then my players say: But we can help him!'. My reply is: First, there's a good chance you'll only run in his way, and as a second attacker you're drawing a second defender with you, and two vs two is harder than one vs one.'

I still have a lot of room for improvement.

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.