“Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.”

The emotion to handle the pressure is one of the biggest challenges in football – it’s the top challenge.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

You’d be waiting 30 or 40 years for me to build a table. I have more than two left hands.

My biggest skill is common sense. I understand life.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

Often, you are forced to keep things simpl

Only stupid people are changed by success.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions.

I’m not a one-man show. I was never that in my life, and I never want to be that.

Sometimes I don’t use the words ‘will’ and ‘want’ in the right way.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

I am not saying I am the best manager in the world. But I’m quite good.

I’m really a normal football manager.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.

When you’re healthy, you can do so many great things.

You can’t speak openly about everything.

When I can see them on Netflix. I don’t really watch anything on TV. It’s not really a priority for me.

Don’t be concerned with what you can’t do. Work on what you can do – then count your blessings.