There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.

However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside.

I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.

There’s only one moment in which you can arrive in time. If you’re not there, you’re either too early or too late.

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.

Coincidence is logical.