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" When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started. "

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" 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. "

" I can have everything I love at the same time. I can have my family, I can have my friends, and I can have my quiet life, which I also like. I can have my football, and I can have everything together, and I don't need to give up one to be better than what I am. "

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

" 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. "

" At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions. "

" I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch. "

" I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal. "

" Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. "

" So when they have Mourinho and Benitez joining the Premiership they should say it's good for us, maybe these guys have something new to give. "

" The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20. "

" I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life. "

" In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents. "

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

" I always say that I need competition, and I need competition every week, and in Spain, I was at an amazing club, but I had four matches a year: Barcelona v Real Madrid, Real Madrid v Barcelona, and after that, we'd win 4-0, 5-0, 4-1, 6-1. "

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

" The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that. "

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

" So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists. "

" 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! "

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" But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups. "

" The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society. "

" There has been evolution in many different areas - the way I read the game; the way I prepare the game; the way I train; the methodology... I feel better and better. But there is one point where I cannot change: when I face the media, I am never a hypocrite. "

" I need my time to be lonely. "