Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

It is better to fail with your own vision than to fail with another man's vision.

If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.

I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.