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

We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.

Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

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.

In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

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.

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.