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“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.”
“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.”
“Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.”
“I think the best place to work in football is England.”
“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'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.”
“Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.”
“I need my time to be lonely.”
“I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently.”
“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.”
“Money does not guarantee success.”
“The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.”
“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.”
“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.”
“For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.”
“I remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in other stadiums.”
“Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe.”
“The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.”
“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 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.”