Football is a simple game. It's just very hard to play it simple.

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

Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is play simple football.

If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball

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

When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.

A counter-attack can only arise when you make a mistake. That's why there are rules. A horizontal pass? Prohibited. In my line-up there are as many lines as possible. Because you must have the option to pass the ball forward, even if it's a meter. Because then I can still make up for the loss of possession. After a horizontal pass this is impossible.