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" I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently. "

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" I know one of my best qualities is to read the game for my players, is to read the opponent, is to identify every detail about the opponent. "

" The period before the game can be important to influence opinions, characters, personalities, feelings, and, of course, I use that to touch my players, to touch opponents, to touch supporters. "

" I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies. "

" The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession. "

" The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine. "

" Once, players came to football expecting to be wealthy when they retired. Now, they expect to be wealthy before they've played their first game! "

" I'm not afraid to lose my job, and when you're not afraid, you don't feel any pressures. You are not too worried; you can express yourself in a different way. It makes you better, I think. "

" Everybody can be smart. "

" In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto. "

" The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch. "

" You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time. "

" Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe. "

" When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. "

" I have always felt an affinity with Old Trafford; it has hosted some important memories for me in my career, and I have always enjoyed a rapport with the United fans. "

" For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born. "

" You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football. "

" And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think. "

" Money does not guarantee success. "

" I don't know where football will take me because in football, you never know, but for sure, as a family, our home will be in London. "

" The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters. "

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" When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football. "

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" In football, I'm not so old. At 52, maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as... you might say an 'old fox.' Nothing scares me; nothing worries me too much. It looks like nothing new can happen for me. "

" Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you. "

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