“Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.”

It is my job to help the players react better.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

I love pets, especially dogs.

I’ve thought sometimes about what I like about football, and it’s playing together.

My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji’s best role.

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.

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

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.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

I have to be involved in negotiations because players have to buy into me and what I want from them if they join my club, so all managers need to be fully involved in transfers, that’s for sure.

The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.

The manager is by himself. He can’t mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players.

When you’re a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.

The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.

Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with “right fit” prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis.