The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

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

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.

If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!

We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession...A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.

Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'