I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them see that without each other they are nothing.

Thats the beauty of sport. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry

If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.

Lahm is the most intelligent player I have ever trained in my career

Messi is an irreplaceable player, today if he was here we would have won 5-0 but he was not and we had to play another in his place.

Out of everyone at Manchester United, I would pick out Scholes, he is the best midfielder of his generation. I would had loved to play alongside him.

I strive to live with passion and not to be desensitised to life. Things matter to me. You’ve got to live like that. Otherwise what’s the point? It’s not possible to please everyone and there is no point in trying to be what other people think you should be. For me, it’s important to be who I am, not just to be different but to be as authentic as I can be.