I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.

He's a specialist in failure.

If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.

If I had wanted to be protected in a quiet job, I could have stayed at Porto. I would have been second, after God, in the eyes of the fans even if I had never won another thing.

With all the stones being thrown against me you could build a monument!

Without emotional control you cannot play, influence; you cannot react. You have to know what you have to do and not react. You have to be cool.

The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.