If there isn't a sequence of 15 previous passes, a good transition between attack and defence is impossible. Impossible.

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.

I have learned that when you’re in the right you should fight the world.

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

My advice for Sebastian Kehl is: if you have a 35-point deficit in the league, it is better to shut up.

It has been an honour to be the coach of the best player (Messi) I have ever seen and probably the best I will see.

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.